A Day out Saturday 5 January

A Day out  

Saturday 5 January

Visitor in my garden

Eurasian Jay (Garrulus Glandarius)

Today I spotted this years first Eurasian Jay, visiting my new bird feeder station,

he or she mostly stayed at the ground eating the seeds which the other birds

had made fall to the ground. A couple of days before I also spotted a small flock 

of Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus) also called Long-tailed Busch Tit, 

they stayed for a quick snack bite of the suet ball and when I had my 

camera ready they were gone.  

 Lövsund

Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus)

According to the calculations I found on the internet, the sun was going

down at 15:10 so I decided to head towards Lövsund to see if I could get some 

nice shots of the sunset and hopefully some shots of the Whooper swans  who

stayed in the area.

Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus)

The juvenile bird´s plumage is gray-white and the beak is black and white to yellow

with a little tinge of pink, the plumage will not turn white until its first year, or early 

spring during the second year of their life. I have also learned that the juveniles need

large areas of water to live in, when they are still growing, since their body weight 

cannot be supported by their own legs for a while, so they spends much of their 

time in the water swimming and eating.

The sunset was amazing, some times when arriving back home again, I find myself

thinking, after downloading the photos, that the colours were so much better when 

I was standing facing the amazing landscape. There are so many times when I have 

been rather dissapointed when looking at my shots back home again.

Now I know that the main reason to my "disappointment" is that when "I am there 

on  the spot", my own feelings adds to the experience, just because I am there with 

all of my senses, and the connection with what I see, hear feel and smell make the 

experience so incredible. While back at my computer room there are so 

many other things, which create a distraction. Some days I have chosen not to 

download the images when arriving back home again, just because I have felt 

distracted by something else. I have found this strategy to work very well for 

me. Later when I finally felt that "now it is time to download"  I have been able 

to enjoy the whole picture 100%.  

A breathtaking view, taken Saturday 5, downloaded today. 

100%  ;-)

Warm greetings to you all
/Maria