The weather all of a sudden turned great so I actually skipped the World Cup in Brazil and took my gear to Stavsten outside Trelleborg. It didm´t take long until the first Oystercatcher landed in front of me.

Oystercatcher coming down.

… it always feels like the Grey Heron knows that I´m there…

Suspicious Grey heron.

I really wanted to try my Gimbal and there where some sun tonight, so I managed to sneak away on a walk along the ocean after dinner. There´s some shore meadows five minutes walk from where I live and there´s a lot of Common redshanks there, so that´s where I went.

Landing.

Unloading.

Squeaking.

Looking for the next meal paying attention to nothing else,

Fully focused.

This little Eurasian coot squeaker rests in the safety of the nest behind mother. Taken from the floating blind with 500mm.

Behind my mother I am safe.

A back lit Coot-squeaker left the next to look for som food en the branches next to the water.

Back-lit Coot squeaker.

This Eurasian coot was picking Dragonfly caterpillars from the reeds. I was just beside in the floating blind.

Eurasian coot with Dragonfly caterpillars.

This is the first of probably a bunch of pictures that´ll be coming from tonights shoot. A Eurasian coot among the flowers

Eurasian coot among the flowers.

A grebe of some sort, coot with a squeaker and some decent weather would be nice tonight.

Great crested Grebe.

It´s not easy to control a floating blind on open sea. I learned that the other day. Even on the calmest day there´s still waves making it virtually impossible to fokus since the lens is moving up and down. But I got myself into real shallow water with no waves where I found this Black-headed Gull.

Black-headed gull on open waters.