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, 1/1250 f/4.5, ISO 400, hand held. Kintai Fishponds, Lithuania.
It is built next to a reed beds, we use to breed the young fish only in this pond so it is attracting big variety of fish eating birds. To avoid disturbing the birds, the distance from the hotel is about 2 km. In the hide there will be mobile bio-toilet. To be able to keep warm, the hide (winter and early spring) will be equipped with a gas heater, which uses air from outside and has a chimney for releasing flue-gas. The birds are mostly feeding with the fish bred in the pond, which is available from the autumn until beginning of the summer, when the pond is drained for the summer season. About 20-25 meter far from the hide there is a reed bed which is used by many birds during the breading season. The activity of the birds, but as the hide is positioned in North direction, this was thought to be available for morning and evening photo sessions. We put also perches in front of the hide so you can get some close up shots of the birds. Once, we can photograph them all day long depending on weather or the art skills of our clients. The birds are constantly around the area, they often gather in evening hours to roost, 100-200 meters away from the hide there is open waters used by ducks to feed as the water level is very much the same, because it is on the main fly away of the bird migration, we expecting very big diversity. As soon as the first bird arrives, the others will join in soon in numbers from 25 bird species in winter and up to 50-60 in late summer. We recommend at least 80 cm away from the glass and avoid sudden movements. Keeping the above mentioned rules is essential for successful day in the hide, otherwise the birds easily become mistrustful towards the hide. When it is not frosty, the place is often visited by a number of Caspian, Herring, Black-headed and Common Gulls to roost. Also Grey Heron, Great White Egret and Common Crane are frequent visitors of the roosting site. This is our only hide, where we expect more birds during migration, thus occurrence of the birds is unpredictable, but frequently observation are done weekly basis. The hide was built in October 2015 and is yet to be made lots of improvements and observations, but winter will give us more feedback about the behavior of the birds and we will update the checklist frequently with data about the numbers of species here.
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