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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

KANGASALA OSPREY FOUNDATION, FINLAND

Discover the best place in the world to photograph Ospreys.

The Pohtiolampi pond in Kangasala, near Tampere, Finland, is the best place in the world to photograph Ospreys. Most of the images of Ospreys fishing have been taken there. The place is operated by the Osprey Foundation, which has run the fish pond for the Ospreys for more than two decades, and the locally breeding wild Ospreys have learned to use the pond for fishing regularly. On a good day there can be as many as 150 Osprey fishing dives!

The fish pond was originally built to serve Osprey protection and research. Likewise, the first blinds that were built around the pond were designated for researchers. Then photographers visiting ...

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ISBN: 9781457179570