Not often that I write two posts on the same day but after
finishing my earlier post I come over all weird and had a strange twitchy
feeling that I can’t remember having had for decades. I willed Mrs OsloBirder
to get home from work and at 1745 I was in the car. Leaving a bit later meant I
missed the worst of the afternoon traffic but I still felt that everyone else
was driving far too quickly. But I still managed to get there quicker than the
GPS predicted ;-)
Three others including Messrs Gullberg and Zakariassen were already
staking out the bird but it wasn’t a difficult one to pick out. It was with a
handful of Common Eider less than 100m offshore and it looked like they wanted
to come close into shore presumably to feed on mussels so I would imagine that
there are some very good photo opportunities waiting to be had if the bird
hangs around and the weather brightens up. But what a bird. OK, I’ve seen them
before in Varanger in large flocks, in great light and in amazing landscapes
but an adult male a stones throw from Oslo Centre was not something I was
expecting.
It gave me another opportunity to put the new camera through
its paces but that jury is still out....
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| taken with 65x optical zoom uncropped |
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| 65x optical zoom and cropped slightly |
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| uncropped using digital zoom (not sure what is was but over 100x) |
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| 65x optical zoom uncropped |
The still pictures might need some perfecting but the video seems to be very good
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