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I don’t know how many more galleries will be formed before I expand the European Green Woodpecker’s gallery, but I’m sure the Eurasian Wryneck’s gallery was formed in its anticipation. I know for sure where they occur and numerous times I have waited for them from an early morning hours. This time a beautifully colored European Green Woodpecker couple briefly appeared. Unfortunately, too far, behind little twigs, for AF to focus, so this time again the one-photo gallery of the European Green Woodpecker didn’t expand, but I managed to take the presented, first, picture of an Eurasian Wryneck. I knew it is the smallest woodpecker in Poland, but I did not knew it is so small. Even from a couple of meters distance it is hard to determine whether it is a Eurasian Wryneck or some other bird. By its size it is more or less a sparrow. However, the observation of this bird’s behavior gives an entirely different impression. Beautiful shades of brown, and a silhouette, like subtly and precisely carved bird miniature, reminding of the ones you can buy at fairs. I could not locate it for a while, though I managed to record its voice. I knew, hearing the sound, it’s a woodpecker, I did not know that it is an Eurasian Wryneck. After a while, another one appeared. Unluckily, they sat by each other only for a short while, too short to take a picture. And some basic data for the end. Wryneck’s weight is round 40 grams with a wingspan of around 30 centimeters. Who knows, how many pictures of a wryneck will emerge, while trying to take pictures expanding the European Green Woodpecker’s gallery, which I will surely try to perpetuate. The couple, which I saw briefly in the light of the rising sun created an astonishing image, which unfortunately remained only in my memory.
Last minute news – May 2013
This hasn’t happened before. Such a “young” gallery, freshly started, just completed (sound editing, polish text, translation takes a while, and I’m always short on time…) and such A Change! A coincidence again. There were still “edited” voices of Eurasian Wrynecks in my head, when, walking towards allotment gardens with my father-in-law, some kind of a strange voice could not get out of my head, though, at first I could not recognize the sound. And suddenly I saw a bustling pair of Eurasian Wrynecks. And as it was at the allotments one didn’t need big preparations to photograph. Passersby, that looked curiously at the masking net didn’t scare away the wrynecks. Effect of this short session, for me at least, is fulminant. Numerous times last year I have tried to take at least one, “contact”, documentary picture of a wryneck and nothing. In this job you need to have the gear with you all the time, go in the outdoor as much as you can, and what becomes of it – you never know. That maybe is its whole charm…
Last minute news- 05/2020
After seven years, there was another meeting with the Wryneck. My expectations are changing what I would like to achieve in nature photography. Once, any photo was enough to set up a gallery, today the bar is slightly higher. Maybe also under the influence of watching other people's photos, which can not only be rated as very good, but also as inspirational. Yes, so there have been changes in the gallery of the Wryneck, but not what I would like. Gallery improvement continues...
Last minute news – 05/2021
There have been changes to the Eurasian Wryneck gallery, though not as I planned. Out of a few attempts at photographing birds, only one ended up taking good pictures. Quite a similar scenario as last year ...
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