This video is from two different visits to Övre Föret in early spring, after a weather setback (we got a snow"storm" around Easter, I think). So, there's some snow around, and bleak coloured environment. (Typical Swedish early spring!) This is from the period when I still had the video setting of 50 fps, I thought I had done them all, but forgotten stashes keeps popping up... (rolls eyes).
Anyway, the Great Cormorants are in full breeding plumage, and hang around the banks of the creek, in decent reach of the 800 mm that was mounted on the second visit (April 6). I intersperse the footage from that day with the footage taken on April 4, when I had the 100-500 mm on. I found it somewhat interesting to compare the results, since the birds and weather was almost the same. Almost, but not quite! I had a less common species in sight on April 6: 3 male Pochards (Brunand). They're very sharp-looking ducks!
Otherwise it's mostly the same common birds that show up: Black-headed Gull (Skrattmås), Eurasian Coot (sothöna), Common Goldeneye (Knipa), Tufted Duck (Vigg). Then there's a short visit by a pair of Whooper Swan (Sångsvan), which is always nice. They actually do some whooping, barely audible due to the distance, but still! Two pair of Lesser Black-backed Gull (Silltrut) show up to a communal Gull-bathing session, they're also nice to see. We have a small breeding population of them in Uppsala.
In the background one can sometimes spot Mallard (Gräsand) and at one time even Eurasian Teal (Kricka).
Then there's a silhouette photo of a Goshawk in a spruce, it landed there when I was quite far off. I tried to nail the spot while moving a little closer. Due to the "light" and distance I couldn't see it, but took a chance and shot a photo of where I thought it was, way up top. I almost got it right...
I end the video with a short visit to Tweety's, to test how the 800 mm with its f11 and min focus distance of 6 m would fare in the gloom. As it turned out: so so. We get to see Chaffinch (Bofink), Eurasian Treecreeper (Trädkrypare) and lastly a Eurasian Nuthatch (Nötväcka) busy opening a sunflower seed by wedging it into a tree stump.

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