It really is a very special gift and a joy for me to have met this little guy here. It was on my agenda for a long time: a good picture of the kingfisher. It was a dream, a goal and for a long time I didn’t know how and where I could find it and capture it in pixels. Finally, it worked and it was the photographic and emotional highlight of my work to date. I would like to share this joy with you out there and wish you a peaceful, wonderful holiday, a happy new year and lots of great moments in the next year.
They are becoming a nuisance in many places and last Sunday, when I was out in Hainburg hunting kingfishers (just for the photo), there was at least one nutria in every small pond. At first we thought (Thomas was with us) that it was always the same, but the differences were quickly identified. As the first one appeared at the old beaver den and also dived right in front of it, we had to ask the internet whether we were seeing a real beaver after all. In the end, it wasn’t a black nose, the ears stick out too far and the white whiskers plus the rat tail and yellow teeth showed that it was nutrias that were up to their mischief there.
