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It was worth flying to Fuerteventura to see ducks - ruddy shelducks, there on the rocky, brown desert. A shelducks pair allowed me to take a few photos, but any attempt to reduce the distance always ended with their departure. Always, as I tried three times to capture them in the best possible way. Ruddy shelduck’s weight does not exceed 1.6 kilogram and a wingspan is less than 1.5 meter. Pictures showing them in flight with  the desert landscape in the background, are probably the most interesting and most representative of the species in my gallery. We also found a large group of shelducks beside waters, but the distance was so long that only a documentary photo could be taken.
Last minute news – Turkey2  09/2014
Another beautiful, amazing place in Turkey. Large lake located in the beautiful mountains of Turkey, and a thousand, maybe two thousands of ruddy shelducks on the shore of the lake. Dozens of gray herons, squacco herons, hundreds of cormorants, gulls, pied avocets and ubiquitous migrating bee-eaters. It was hardly possible not to hear the sound of flocks of bee-eaters every hour. Unfortunately they were flying so fast and chaotically that I was not able to take any picture. But let us back to ruddy shelducks. Not so long ago, on Fuerteventura I photographed them for the first time. How surprised I was when coming closer to the lake I could see on the shore thousands of waterfowl, including ruddy shelducks. I could not come closer, but I added a few pictures of the flocks flying against the beautiful mountains and creating an unforgettable scene.
Last minute news 06/2016-Mongolia
A few interesting photos of the ruddy shelduck taken in Mongolia were a reason to rebuild the „desert” gallery of this bird.
Last minute news-09/2022-London
I have already written about the attraction of photographing birds in parks of large cities on my website when I photographed in the Royal Baths Park in Warsaw. I always like to return to this park, especially in autumn. St. James's Park exceeded my wildest expectations. Despite the fact that its area is a field of our Royal Baths Park, or maybe because of that, it was possible to observe dozens of species of birds there. They could be photographed without any camouflage and sometimes from very close range. Grey Herons reduced the distance to a few meters. Unfortunately, there were three limitations on this day. The first was time limited. Unfortunately, my stay in London was very short and I could not devote more than less than 3 hours to photographing birds. The second limitation was the light. At the time I had the pleasure of photographing there was quite harsh, contrasty light and this was not conducive to taking very good photos. The third impediment was the approaching day of the Queen's funeral. Not only was London overcrowded with people, but also the park itself where people were literally rubbing up against each other and there were thousands of them. Probably will have to return there, because as befits a large metropolitan area, London has several parks and who knows what else will be observed and photographed there? For a short stay there, the result is impressive. I've added a new gallery of a bird belonging to the fauna of Poland and it is the White-headed Duck (393/467). This bird has appeared in Poland less than 20 times, so it is a great rarity in our country. A gallery was also created of Ross's Goose. I also added photos to the gallery of the Red-breasted Goose, Egyptian goose and Eastern gray squirrel. Here I am most pleased with the photos of the Red-breasted Goose. Such a beautiful bird, until now had only a few documentary photos taken from a considerable distance. Finally, here there are changes after 8 years, the gallery changes its design and the quality status of the photos. This text is common to all galleries created and changed after a visit to the park in London.
Last minute news-03/2023-Morocco