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Ron Valstar
front-end developer

Birds

Another nice subject diverging from front-end development is birds. Before, I just loved nature related things, not birds specifically. Although İ did donate to Vogelbescherming (because it is a good environment end-boss) and İ did get several birding books for my birthday.
A few months ago İ started listening to the Vogelspotcast and thought İ'd buy my first binoculars. Then I was hooked.

After a trip to İlperveld and Westhoffplas İ decided İ also needed a good camera. İ am a complete noob, so a lot of determination is done afterwards, which is difficult when you have to go on memory or sloppy mobile photos..

Luckily İ had an old camera, so all İ needed was a zoom lens. These first photos are nothing special, like I said: I'm a birding noob. İt is just a really funny pose of a grey heron, from the perspective of an unsuspecting fish.

A grey heron looking down