Isolepinkäinen ja saalis – Great gray shrike and prey
Kun tuli mainittua isolepinkäinen hiirikuvan yhteydessä, niin tässä lintunen saaliinsa kanssa. Taitaa olla myyrä, kun on lyhyt häntä. Jos lintu on jo saanut syötyä kyllikseen, se varastoi loput sopivaan oksanhankaan seuraavaa ateriaa varten.

When I mentioned great gray shrike in connection with the mouse picture, here is the bird with its prey. It must be a mole, as it has short tail. If the bird has already eaten enough, it stores the rest in a suitable branch for the next meal.


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A Morning in Layers

Yesterday’s morning light was something else — the kind of light that shifts the entire mood of a landscape. I started early, camera in hand, watching as the first rays of sun broke through the horizon at the Loonse en Drunense Duinen. The Canon 5DsR with the Sigma 24–70 Art captured that dance between storm clouds and sunlight — a fiery sky meeting cold, dark clouds above a golden line of dunes.

Later that morning, a flash of movement caught my eye. Perched high in a tree, a Lanius excubitor — the Great Grey Shrike (Klapekster in Dutch) — scanned the landscape. A master of patience and precision, this bird is both predator and poet of the heathlands. Just as I focused, it launched into flight, wings twisting into the sunlight — a single frame of balance between control and freedom, taken with the 5D Mark IV and the Sigma 100–400.

Before heading home, I found a small Mycena mushroom rising from a bed of moss, surrounded by acorn caps and fallen leaves. Humble, delicate — yet part of the same story. The sun, the bird, the fungus — each a layer in nature’s quiet symphony.

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Hallo meine lieben Lebensformen,
auch heute hatte ich kein Glück mit dem Wiedehopf. Morgen werde ich es nicht probieren.
Habe aber heute dafür einen Raubwürger fotografieren können. Die sind echt garstige Models. Aber wer schon Raubwürger hheißt möchte natürlich nicht fotografiert werden, verständlich.

Tiere sind Freunde und kein Essen oder eine Plage.
Bleibt gesund, glücklich und verliebt.

Der schlimmste Seelenschmerz ist das Fernweh.

M@rcel
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Hello my dear life forms,

I had no luck with the hoopoe today either. I won't try tomorrow.
But I did manage to photograph a great grey shrike today. They are really nasty models. If you knew his German name, it would also explain why he avoids photos: Robber and Strangler.

Animals are friends, not food or a nuisance.
Stay healthy, happy and in love.

The most terrible pain in the soul is wanderlust.

M@rcel
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Had a little excitement, in birding terms yesterday on my usual walk, a bird flitting along the fence at the bottom of a field caught my eye and then my lens, open ground so I couldn't get any closer 🙄 #bird #birds #birdphotography #birdtrack #wildlife #nature #naturephotography #GreatGreyShrike #Scotland #scottishwildlife #bto #Countryfile