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The Handbook of Bird Photography
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The Handbook of Bird Photography

by Markus Varesvuo, Jari Peltomaki, Bence Mate
April 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
368 pages
9h 3m
English
Rocky Nook
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JARI PELTOMÄKI

YEARS VARY AND CIRCUMSTANCES CHANGE

Tap into the opportunities each year offers.

Each bird year is different, and many factors affect them. Weather causes essential changes from one year to another, but the food situation has the biggest effect on where and when birds move and where they settle. As an example, in some years rowan trees have very good berry crops. These years are ideal for photographing berry-eating birds. In some years the vole populations decline, so owls become very easy targets for photography. Seasoned bird photographers know how to use these different phenomena to their advantage.

With bird photography, you should strike when the iron is hot. Whenever a normally hard-to-photograph species is for some reason ...

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ISBN: 9781457179570