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A white rabbit with a cute smile in a natural environment 2
 1. If it Walks Like a Goose And it Talks Like a Goose…. As soon as this Army of Cuteness arrives, the most fanatical birder goes “awwwwwwww”.Bold loitering spontaneously share their sandwiches, a homeless worriedly counts whether they are as many as yesterday.   2. Interview by Bored Panda “Talented […]

38. Photography Bestof 2014

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Amphibians | Hyla arborea tree frog
Skilled Pole Dancers I bet most fellow nature photographers assumed – just like I did- tree frogs to be hugely enterprising, energetic and cheerful creatures. Skilfully hopping from blackberry to blackberry, climbing in trees like professional circus artists, swinging on stalks, as if they were climbing frames and sliding along […]

25. The Great Green Yawn

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Corn Poppy Papaver rhoeas klaproos bloem Flower photography 2
Biking Around I love to photograph in my own neighborhood. Just biking around,the wind in my hair and my bag on my carrier. No train-delay,caused by so called square wheels, cows on the rails or similar excuses. Unfortunately exciting nature is sparse around here. But with a little fantasy and […]

22. Poppies!

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Meerkikker Pelophylax ridibundus Pool frog marsh frog 3
Fight, Flight or….Dive! Frogs are programmed quite simplistically: as soon as there’s any potential danger: dive!Logical enough, but a bit sad for the photographer the happy party ends as soon as (s)he enters…The enthusiastic quacking abruptly dies and the ditch looks as if there have never been any frogs and […]

12. It’s a Frogs Life

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Kleine Plevier Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius 5
Dutch Desert Thinking about nature photography you probably picture fresh green meadows, meandering rivers, foggy forests or something like that.At least I did. So when I recently cycled to a deserted piece of land along the highway, my romantic image instantly got killed.This unsightly terrain was supposed to house a […]

11. Rollin Rollin Rollin: Plover Photography for Dummies.

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wildlife Moor frog Rana arvalis mating amplex blue amphibians 4
On one of the last winter days some colleague photographers and I plotted our new challenge: finding Blue Moor Frogs. The rumor goes that for just a few days a year the male Moor frog dresses completely blue in order to seduce them frog ladies.So it’s just a matter of […]

8. Blue Mission (searching for Moor Frogs)

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Bohemian waxwing Bombycilla garrulus Pestvogel 1
Nagging Birds In Dutch Bohemian Waxwings are called Pestvogels, which means something like ‘Nagging Birds’.I often wondered why they got this strange name.Well…I found out the hard way! Bohemian waxwings invade my country every now and then.They appear in large numbers and -being just a little shy- they make a […]

7. Bohemian Waxwings Playing Hard to Get

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Bohemian waxwing Bombycilla garrulus Pestvogel 10
Waxwings & better Weather It doesn’t happen that often in life that you get a second chance when you blew your first.And in this case it wasn’t even me who blew it, but the bad weather that did it for me…But…to put it shortly: I got my second chance to […]

4. Waxwings Revisited

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Bittern snow fineart animals in the snow 5
As a newbie when it comes to bird photography I had my first Eurasian Bittern encounter last winter.An overweight, too brownish heron flew out of a reed bed and I realised this must have been one….. Since this find the bird kept me fascinated….A bittern is wrapped in riddles and […]

3. Bittern Times: Facts and Fables about the Eurasian Bittern

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Bohemian Waxwing Bombycilla garrulus Pestvogel 1
Past week I met this very friendly person in the train.We had a pleasant conversation and it appeared he stumbled upon some waxwings that day.I must admit I was a little jealous since i had never seen these beautiful birds in my life.The next morning I planned to stay at […]

2. Bohemian Waxwings in town…!

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