january 2011 northern Thailand |
I have been photographing since 2007. I began taking pictures with a Nikon D80 body and a 300mm/f4 Nikkor lens. Since 2013 I use a Nikon D600 with the same lens. Since june 2015 I use a 300mm f/4 VR Nikkor. '23 I began with Nikon Z6ii mirrorless...
I use this H5 Zoom recorder with a SSH-6 shotgun mic for bird sounds.
This telescope I bought in April 2021. Small, light and good quality. Besides finding birds I can use it as a fine telelens for digiscoping...
and of course the library
I have been birding abroad; besides some countries in Europe I visited Israel twice, Oman, Morocco, Peru, Costa Rica, Colombia, South Africa, Ecuador twice, Thailand twice, Florida, Canary Islands, Madeira, California, Turkey, Western Sahara and Algeria.
Lists:
I use IOC taxonomy for Norway and the wordlist
My WP-list (greater WP) and Dutch list are based on CSNA (Dutch) taxonomy
World 2937
Western Palearctic 707
Netherlands 449
Norway 314
Vestland 275
Bergen 193
edelkryss 250
st. Olavs vei 35
Best finds:
Dark-sided Flycatcher, new for Norway
Long-billed Curlew, new for Colombia
Black-faced Grassquit in Florida (rare straggler from the Bahamas), twitched by many
a group of 16 Griffon Vultures originally above my house in Groningen, the Netherland, subsequently seen in three other provinces by many observers
Raddes' Warbler, new for Hordaland
further sub-rarities, among others American Wigeon, Lesser Yellowlegs, Pectoral Sandpipers, Aquatic Warbler, Melodious Warbler, Rosy Starling, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Olive-backed Pipit, Citrine Wagtails and Little Buntings