End of June Ellie and I went on the last trip of our so-called 8 months break from our daily work. We loaded our car with campinggear and made a tour through South-Eastern Europe. This trip would last till August 12. After a couple of days in the vicinity of Dresden, we went on to the Tsjech Republic, where we stayed for a week on several places and visited Prague, one of the most interesting cities of Europe. The next country was Hungary. We stayed 3 nights on Farm Lator, close to the Bükk National Park. Here I had the possibillity to picture some birds out of a hide. The highlights were a Middle Spotted Woodpecker and Hawfinches, like this juvenile one on the picture below.
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In June I went back to Poland for a week to do some additional photographing. It has been extremely high water in many Polish rivers for more than a month. An area where this was very visible is the Warta Mouth National Park, in the west part of the country close to the border with Germany.
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Coming back from Finland I picked up my nephew Eli(Nickname: Olepole) in Berlin and we went to, eventually, the north east part of Poland. First to the area of the Biebrza and Narew rivers. This territory is one of the finest nature reserves in Europe with endless bogs and swamps, mixed with forests, inbedded in an agricultural environment.
The water of the rivers overflow in spring and cows have to find there way in between the tributaries (see picture near Gora Strekowa along the Narew). What amazed me was the extreme high numbers of White-winged Black Terns; thousands upon thousands were hovering above the overflowing meadows and bogs.
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End of April I went to Finland by car, via Sweden. In the area of Kuhmo, close to the border with Russia I visited Wild Brown Bear Lodge(Like in August 2008). There were still patches of snow in the forests and temperatures at night dropped easily below zero. 3 nights in a bearhide weren't very succesfull as far as bears are concerned. But to my surprise I saw a wolverine twice and one time with excellent light in the early morning. This so-called hyena of the North came to visit this place for a carcass which was laying there. These animals are extremely shy though and tend to avoid any human presency. On the picture below you can see this wolverine sneeking out of the taiga on a frosty morning.
My other goals were trying to picture the courtship of Black Grouse and Capercaillie. After the first night in a hut, right in the middle of a swampy area I was not satisfied with the pictures I took of Black Grouse, so I skipped the Capercaillie and stayed 2 more nights in a hide for Black Grouse.
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From mid March till the end of April we visited Incredible India, a most fascinating country and this visit will certainly not be our last. A full story about this trip can be read in the report of this trip under Links. (picture below: Bhudda's eye in a jaintemple in Jaisalmer Fort)
As far as naturephotography is concerned, this was a very remarkable trip with extremely good sightings, lovely landscapes and often good light. Every nature reserve had a beauty of it's own: In Bandhavgarh NP we had fantastic tigersightings in their habitats (like the picture below of a majestic tigress in a salforest), Kanha NP brought great landscapes and other interesting animals as well, in Ranthambore I managed to make close ups of the most beautiful cat of the world: the Bengal Tiger. In Kaziranga we came in a completely different landscape, influenced by an early monsoon(see picture of wild Indian Elephant)
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