Lyhyiden millien kohteista en kehitellyt mitään uutta, vaan turvauduin vanhaan tuttuun sekopäämetsoon. Kohde on helppo kuvattava aivan lähietäisyydeltäkin, kunhan vaan varautuu väistämättömiin iskuihin. Erityisen altiiksi iskuille joutuu, kun kuvia ottaa laajkulmalla lumenpinnan tasolta.

What a wonderful winter weekend with sunshine and temperatures around minus fifteen degrees Celsius! Flu limited me to stay mainly in car, but even driving around was enjoyable in winter landscape. Moreover one can always find something interesting while along small roads. I saw an Ural Owl sitting on a snowy birch in beautiful sunshine, but was not able to take pictures of it. Same was with a Pygmy Owl sitting on a tree top next a road. Better luck I had with a Common Buzzard and Grey Partridges shown below.

The mission to publish week's pictures with using short lenses produced this time a picture of a male Capercaillie. This old male is a so called crazy one, because it attacks against man. So it is easy to get to get really close to it. On the other hand you have to accept to suffer of really hard hits, when the male attacks. Specially so is case when one tries to take pictures with wide-angle from ground level.