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The new season is slowly starting and it is time to plan on some interesting birding trip. With the increasing number of e-mails asking me about bird photography in Norway I decided to provide a few tips on where to get good information about birding spots. I will stick to a general rule and will not reveal exact locations or GPS coordinates of some sites – in order to keep them quiet and as human-free as possible. The true wildlife enthusiasts will be able to discover these sites anyway. Internet is full o
Besides Great Snipe (Gallinago media) , one of the birds I was looking for during our summer trip to Mid-Norway was the beautiful little wader Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus) . While the popular leks of Great Snipe are located in mountains in Levanger area close to Trondeimsfjord, some of the good spots for watching Phalaropes is the Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella National Park south of Oppdal...
I took only some basic photo stuff with me when I went to a business trip to polish Krakow last year November. I had no chance to go out from the city but fortunately the hotel I was staying at was located right next to the Visla river. Thus I took at least the 200mm lens when I made a few afternoon walks along the riverbank in an attempt to capture some of the city bird inhabitants. Mostly these were Ducks and Gulls but there was also a number of Rooks and Jackdaws - the "collectors" that were gathering in