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19th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Sand martin love

In 2019 I discovered the secret live of birds. With my new camera I had a closer look at sand martins breeding at the cliffs of the Baltic Sea coast. This kind of bird is extremely fast and pretty hard to catch as it is most of the time moving. But photographing special moments shows, that even these small birds are affected to each other and show emotional interactions like we do.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 06.2019
Date Uploaded: 11.2021
Photo Location: Nienhagen, Germany
Camera: NIKON D7500
Copyright: © Patrick Schwarzbach