Early morning with the cuckoo

On Monday, before I would take the car to the rental agency, I thought I'd like to take me to Redmires reservoir early in the morning.
The clock alarmed already 4:40 and after a quick sandwich, I was going.
The reason that I go away so early, is that I have seen the cuckoo appears to be active in the early morning.
Came out to the reservoirs around 5:00  down with the car window and immediately I heard the cuckoo, drove the car a little closer to the place where they appeared to be. Then it was just to go where the sounds came from, it was not easy to enter the place because it is fully open.
So they where scared of course, but I brought the camoflauge today so I went up to a hill near a tree where they used to land.
Pulled on me the camo and waited, it took maybe half an hour, and they were back, I sat about 6 m away from them.
One of the cuckoo came from behind and flew about 3 m above me laughing on their special way, then where I'm a little frightened was not quite prepared for it. :) :)
I spent about 4 hours to check out this pair, they flew away at times but always returned after a while. Unfortunately was the morning sun rise quite high before I got the first pictures of them and then it was against the sun also which is not really ideal. While I sat there under the camo, I saw something flying towards me, it looked like a bird of  prey.  but unfortunately it was too close before I could react.
So I took some pictures from behind only to identify it later when I'm home.
The bird was apparently a Short-eared Owl, it was sad to miss the photo opportunity, but now I know they're there.

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It was this one who came from behind and landed 6 m from me (male)

Female, listening for the camera shutter noice

Same female

The male sitting 60m away

It was not only cuckoo this morning (Reed Bunting/sävsparv)

Goldfinch/stegligts in morning light

I think the cuckoo is eaten these.

Some kind of moss flower.

 

Camoflauge Bag

I bought a Camoflauge pouch that you pull over your camera, tripod and possibly a chair. U can of course use it when lying down also. One advantage is that it is easy 500g and packed easily into the enclosed bag.
The purpose of  the camoflauget is of course to try get closer to the wild animals, but we'll see how it will go.
Because even if  i can shoot at fairly long distances, i will get even closer now. The images tend to be so much better that way, allowing more detail and sharpen the image or it's easier to get better sharpness at closer distances. :)
Sometimes you can get remarkably close to the animals, but  the wind must blowing the right direction and thats away from the animals. so you have to keep that in mind also.
Here is some pictures of the camo and older pictures of White-tailed Eagle and a raven chasing it .Look how small the raven is compared to the Eagle and raven is quite large bird.
Now me and my wife is going for a holiday in south of England, coming back monday with fresh pics.
so see u. ;)

The White-tailed Eagle photos are taken in the Stockholm archipelago

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