Mountain flowers

Northern Wolfsbane - Aconitum Lycoctonum -Tyrihjelm
Canon EOS 1D mkIV - EF 70-200 f/2.8L IS USM mk II- at 200 mm -1/800sec - f/2.8 - ISO 200
 

Summertime is busy, spending quality time with my family :) Photography has a lower priority this time of year.  However, today I got time to hike in the mountains. Brought a large arsenal of lenses. Did not spot many birds, so I could perhaps have spared myself carrying the 500mm..... Mountain flowers became todays main motive. Got some pictures of a Northern Wolfsbane (Tyrihjelm) and Wood Cranesbill (Skogstorknebb). The Willow Warblers (Løvsanger) were still quite busy.

Willow Warbler - Phylloscopus trochilus - Løvsanger
Canon EOS 1D mkIV - EF 500 f/4L IS USM- at 500 mm -1/1600sec - f/4.0 - ISO 200

Wood cranesbill  1 - Geranium Sylvaticum - Skogstorknebb
Canon EOS 1D mkIV - EF 70-200 f/2.8L IS USM mk II- at 200 mm -1/1250sec - f/2.8 - ISO 200

Wood cranesbill 2 - Geranium Sylvaticum -  Skogstorknebb
Canon EOS 1D mkIV - EF 70-200 f/2.8L IS USM mk II- at 200 mm -1/1250sec - f/2.8 - ISO 200

Northern Wolfsbane 2 - Aconitum Lycoctonum - Tyrihjelm
Canon EOS 1D mkIV - EF 24-70 f/2.8L - at 68 mm -1/800sec - f/2.8 - ISO200

Hardangervidda - Moutainshoot - Migratory birds

Common Kestrel - Falco Tinnunculus - Tårnfalk
Canon EOS1d mk IV - EF 500 f/4L IS USM with 1.4 ex mk III at  - 700mm  - 1/1250 sec - f/6.3 - ISO 160 

Spent a lot of time outside photographing this week. Wendsday evening, photographer Geir Solberg and I went to Hardangervidda. Hoping for some shots at common Cuckoos, Common Kestrels, other migratory birds, perhaps a moose and even a Golden Eagle. Started early thursday morning. Trying out famous photographer Arne Nævras saying "TTT" - Tålmodighet - Telt - Telelinse - which in english meen something like patience - tent - big telly lens. Found a location about 1200 meters above sea level overlooking a marsh and some mountaintops. Spotted Common Cuckoos (Gjøk), Northern Wheatear (Steinskvett), Common Reed Bunting (Sivspurv), Common Raven (Ravn), Willow Warbler (Løvsanger), Meadow Pipit (Heipipelerke), Spotted Flycatcher (Gråfluesnapper) and Common Kestrel (Tårnfalk).

Willow Warbler -  Phylloscopus Trochilus - Løvsanger
Canon EOS1d mk IV - EF 500 f/4L IS USM with 1.4 ex mk III at  - 700mm  - 1/125 sec - f/6.3 - ISO 160

Meadow Pipit -  Anthus Pratensis - Heipipelerke
Canon EOS1d mk IV - EF 500 f/4L IS USM with 1.4 ex mk III at  - 700mm  - 1/640 sec - f/5.6 - ISO 160