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River Views #219: Early Summer #5


I’m sure the parents didn’t intend to leave the fifth baby goose behind,
in fact it was happily swimming behind the whole congregation!

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River Views #219: Early Summer #4


And then they were off, in an almost orderly line.

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River Views #219: Early Summer #3


Early Summer on the Ruhr also means young Canada Geese!

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River Views #218: Early Summer 2


I’ve taken this exact shot once before, but I wanted to try it with the new camera too!

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River Views #217: Early Summer 1


At the end of May, I had taken the big Sony camera out for a spin on the riverfront for the first time and the results were pretty impressive. At first I was a bit apprehensive of not having the focal range of the SX30, but after a while I found out that the 17-50mm lens is really good enough for 90% of all situations and I only changed to the 70-210mm briefly to get some better closeups.

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River Views #216: Springtime Birds 23

This was the second video I filmed of the swan’s nest – this was on Sunday, April 30, only one day before the nest was suddenly empty and abandoned. I was very lucky to have caught a brief glance of the eggs that time – there were only five left. There’s also the alternative Youtube upload as usual.

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River Views #215: Springtime Birds 22

I almost forgot that I filmed a lot of the swans in their nest – here’s the first of the two videos. As usual, the embedded version here is hosted on my own webspace, but you can also watch it on Youtube.

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River Views #214: Springtime Birds 21


Just a Canada Goose enjoying the sun.

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River Views #213: Springtime Birds 20


Another Swan portrait.

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River Views #212: Springtime Birds 19


Mrs. Swan was keeping a close eye on the visitors.

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