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Archive for February, 2009

Jari Peltomäki - Lake Kerkini – Kastoria lake, Greece V

Thursday, February 12th, 2009 Posted in Southern Europe, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

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Day 5. Today we had a long drive (3 hours) from Kerkini to the Greek town of Kastoria. Dimitris showed me some images of Pelicans swimming with a really Greek-looking town as a background and I decided to give it a ...

Jari Peltomäki - Lake Kerkini, Greece IV

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 Posted in Southern Europe, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

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Day 4 Lake Kerkini, Macedonia, Greece. Morning was bright and I headed for some sunrise images of Pelicans. Activity was quite low in the morning but I got some silhouettes and some flight shots. Also some shots of Pelican a group ...

Jari Peltomäki - Lake Kerkini, Greece III

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Posted in Southern Europe, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

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Day 3 Lake Kerkini, Macedonia, Greece Morning of my second full day at the lake was also cloudy. That was an excuse for another fairly late departure for photography. However, we did what we planned to do. We put the floating ...

Juan Carlos Muñoz – Red Kites, Wales, UK II

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized, Western Europe | 5 Comments »

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09.February.2009. Rainy day. Time to walk across the forests looking at the old oaks and their beautiful lower branches under the rain. The red kites arrive as every day, but they stop at the trees even with the meat on the ground. ...

Jari Peltomäki - Lake Kerkini, Greece II

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Posted in Southern Europe, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

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Day 2  Lake Kerkini, Macedonia, Greece First morning was very grey so we decided to sleep a little longer. Anyway yesterday was a very very long travel day! After good rest and breakfast we went out to look for the Pelicans. ...

Magnus Lundgren – Lofoten, Norway I

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Posted in Northern Europe, Uncategorized | 12 Comments »

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Flying in over Lofoten, coming from Bodö, is natural drama in its true sense. The coastline is seriously spectacular and dramatic. Seeing it from a small and rattling airplane in the soft afternoon light I just could not not stop ...

Jari Peltomäki – Lake Kerkini, Greece I

Monday, February 9th, 2009 Posted in Southern Europe, Uncategorized | No Comments »

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Day 1 Travel Oulu - Helsinki - Budapest - Thessaloniki - Lake Kerkini (It took about 14 hours!) After two hours of refreshing night sleep I woke up at 3.00am without alarm clock! That is typically me! Always when I have ...

Juan Carlos Muñoz - Red Kites, Wales, UK.

Monday, February 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized, Western Europe | 4 Comments »

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Rhayader. Mid-Wales. Snowfall and a black and white landscape. Probably this is the most unknown area of Wales but is the home of the symbol of Welsh wildlife: the red kite. Right now this national symbol is flying over me… Around ...

Peter Cairns - Cairngorms NP, Scotland

Friday, February 6th, 2009 Posted in Northern Europe, Uncategorized | 4 Comments »

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Wild Wonders of Europe - it sounds so grand, so distant, so...wild. But wild is all around us - in our parks, in the rivers that run through our cities, even in our gardens. You only have to look...or should ...

Staffan Widstrand - Flatanger, Norway 3

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 Posted in Northern Europe, Uncategorized | 5 Comments »

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Golden eagles – the most powerful raptors in Europe OK. I confess. This is when I realise that I am a complete nerd. But I truly enjoy it. Spending 7 days in a cold hide, from hours before sunrise to after ...