Category: Nature & Wildlife

The fruits of the amelanchier also attract rarer guests. A female blackcap was enjoying it…

Today it was almost windless at the Grodener Wettern. Accordingly, there was also more activity there.

This morning drove again to the place named Baumrönne in Cuxhaven to hopefully photograph the reed buntings. It was quite windy, so that not too much was going on. With a few situations I had then but luck.

Yesterday morning a few reed buntings were cavorting at the tree canopy. Also from yesterday are the pictures of the pheasant and the gray heron at Pastor-Draegert Weg. A rough wire mesh fence was in the way of the pheasant, but this is only a small area in the plumage where the contrasts are a […]

Short test of the Fringer NF-FX (FR-FTX1) adapter with the X-T3 and the Nikkor 500f/5.6 PF. The adapter works excellent. I still have to experiment a bit with the autofocus settings of the X-T3, but otherwise it is already very good. Exif data is also fully adopted. This could make the Nikon D500 obsolete 🙂 […]

On Saturday I went to the nature reserve near the Kugelbake with the D500 and the 500 tele lens. The snow buntings should be back from what I’ve read. And, indeed, 10 birds were in the mudflats in search of food. Of course, the ruddy turnstones were there as well.

Early this morning in Groden, a fox was running around on the premises of a company. When he saw me, he had already gone…