Bird photography using car as a hide

When I met a Danish bird photographer with the nickname John Fugl (John Bird) at the Norwegian island Runde last year during my late winter visit, one of the interesting information I have learned was that one of the most efficient ways how to approach birds while not disturbing them was using the car as a hide. At that time I still thought that the best and only way how to get close to the birds was to lie down on the ground covered by masking net; soon after that I realised John was true…

Roof-breeding Oystercatcher - webcam

Christmas Eve has come…

Im not very old to be retrospecting but even I already remember the freezing and snowy Christmas in the times when I was a little boy. Today at Christmas Eve I went out to search for a bit of peace but insted of that the noise of ATV (quad-bike) distracted me from not far away. Christmas is supposed to be a time of calm and peace but not everyone is happy at this time – from behind the hill I could hear the noise of hunting-gun shooting – deer is not safe even at Christmas time! There is no snow around and as I remember this is not an exception in the recent years...

Birdwatching

Photography and watching of birds are close-knit but it is very difficult to do both activities properly at the same time – either you focus on bird photography to get the best shot of one species with many birds you simply pass over or you are a real birdwatcher but seldom make perfect picture of the bird....

STOP SHOOTING BIRDS

This new project of authors Jan Veber and Marie Cibulková touches a delicate issue of illegal trapping and shooting of birds in Mediterranean. Although this activity on Mediterranean islands is as unlawful as in other countries of European Union, every year about half million of birds of passage terminates sadly their pilgrimage there...

Birdsongs recordings

Everybody who is somehow interested in birds or birdwatching knows that one of the most important signs to identify bird species is the bird singing. The one who knows bird songs has great advantage for birdwatching - not only because it says something about what all species are present at the locality but one can also easily track and find the bird and in some cases also differenciate birds that otherwise look alike...

Bird luring using recorded birdsongs

There are certainly many opponents of bird calling among ornithologs and wild-life photographers but the truth is that in some cases bird calling is invaluable aid for both the birdwatching and photography. Here I would like to briefly sum up my first experience with the bird calling that I used during shooting Passerines. It is worth to mention that I have never before read anything about bird calling and so take this report just like my personal field experience...