![]() ![]() I caught it in flight with its wings fanned out , a trophy photo for a wildlife photographer. Here’s the European roller, one of my favorite birds. It is very important to shoot at sunset in order to see the metallic inflections of the feathers, when the light is lower and not falling perpendicularly like at noon or at sunrise. I followed them this year for a few days and managed to take some pretty spectacular shots. ![]() They are easily scared and difficult to photograph. It’s a bird that I saw for the first time last year, here in the Danube Meadow. They say that for bee-eaters pairs are for life. And he keeps baiting the female with insects, she takes it, and she still doesn’t want it, so he leaves and brings her another insect and so on. Here, the male came with an empty beak, but generally they come with an insect. On the left is the male, and the one on the right, sitting on the branch, is the female. I have many photos in which I have managed to capture their mating nicely. I liked Napoleon, because he used to walk so proudly.īy photographing the bee-eaters from the area for the last 4 or 5 years, I have ended up studying them quite a bit. All kinds of names were proposed: Caesar, Redbeard, Spy 07, Peneș the Pheasant, Mărgelatul. I posted a question on my Facebook account about what it should be called. In the end we became so good friends that I could approach him within a few meters with my camera. Hence the popular saying, ‘ai ramas de fazan’ ( ‘you’ve been left a pheasant’). I suspect that it had remained behind because we know that female pheasants, after laying eggs, leave the nest. A larger group of pheasants used to come, but in the end only this individual remained. In this photograph the meadow had been a bit flooded and it was a nice sunset with cows grazing in the background.ĭuring the pandemic I put some bird feeders in the yard. No season or moon goes by without me taking a few shots there, in different poses – at sunset, at sunrise, when it’s raining, when it’s snowing and so on. After my father passed away, I sat by the tree one night and felt a certain vibration, more personal. When I am troubled, I meditate next to it and feel how it recharges me. I have a kind of connection with this tree. ![]() This tree near the Şilistioara pond (a neighborhood in the western part of Corabia – note A.D.) is an old willow. ![]() Ovidiu’s snapshots and stories show us the islands of Băloi and Chirța in the vicinity of the city, the animals and plants living in the Danube Meadow and the connections between the natural environment and human practices, from infrastructural works to teenagers’ adventures. The following photos and comments are signed by Ovidiu Petrita, a wildlife photographer from Corabia, Olt county. We continue the guest post series where we invite locals to share their own understanding of the Danube. ![]()
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