It’s snowing! A Blackbird sitting on a tree

Yesterday morning it started snowing and, euhm… it didn’t stop. It kept snowning and snowing for a few hours. When it – finally – stopped I grabbed my 500D and took some snow landscape shots when all of a sudden this Blackbird (Turdus merula) came sitting on our tree. I was only able to take [...]

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The Great Tit – bird photography

Today I was able to take a picture of the Great Tit, pretty strange name if you ask me. In Dutch it’s “koolmees” and in Latin it’s “Parus major”. It is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common species throughout Europe in any sort of woodland. It is [...]

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