All fluffed up

• Helyszín

  Spain
• A képen látható madár

  Athene noctua (hu: Kuvik en: Little Owl)
• A fotó története

  I was in a hide in the grain fields of the Catalan region in the afternoon, hoping to photograph a Little owl pair that had a burrow in the rocks. This owl appeared and sat on the rocks for a while, preening and surveying the area, before he or she flew off to hunt.

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  A fotó készítésének ideje

  2024-05-26T18:04:55

  Expozíciós idő

  1/1000s

  Gyújtótávolság

  539mm

  Vaku

  Flash did not fire

  Kamera gyártmány

  FUJIFILM

  Kamera modell

  X-H2S
• Kategória

  Birdo extra

• Fotós:

  Heidi Ann Beck

  I have always been interested in wildlife photography. As a child in the USA I covered my walls with photos from the centre of 'Ranger Rick' magazine and attempted to photograph the birds around me with my instamatic camera. I wasn't very successful! Then I grew up and moved the the UK and worked and raised children. It wasn't until 2017 that I was gifted a real camera which could support a telephoto lens. Since then I have been learning how to take photos of wildlife, both around my home, first in the UK and now in Portugal, and further afield, travelling to some amazing places to photograph wildlife. My first love is birds, their stunning variety and beauty, and I am happy to trek through forests, sit for hours waiting in a sauna-like hide, sleep in a bog, or to stand on a boat in the freezing cold, following my passion. I am constantly delighted by them, and with my photographs I attempt to share my delight and amazement, and how beautiful I think they are, the ancestors of the dinosaurs, all around us! I hope that by engaging people with beautiful photos they will start to take notice of the birds and habitat around them, and realise how lucky we are, before more species are lost.