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00:30So hello my friends, I hope you're all doing well.
00:34It's been a few months since I was able to bring you a video.
00:37I had hoped to bring you one from the UK, or two even, and as things turned out my schedule
00:44just didn't allow for it.
00:48So, and in fact I had to delay my trip back to Greece by about six weeks, which unfortunately
00:55meant I was too late to catch the last bit of action on the black stalks nest.
01:03I had hoped to catch them fledging at least, but when I visited the nest a few days after
01:09I got back here the nest was empty.
01:12So I'm hoping that they managed to raise some chicks and were successful in that.
01:22But I'll have to finish that story off next year.
01:27That being said, the chicks and their parents are probably down on the lake at various locations,
01:34which they like to frequent.
01:36This being one of them, and in fact I do have one black stalk in the far distance there.
01:43So maybe I'll get a little bit of footage which can help to help the story next year.
01:50A little bit of extra footage of them down on the lake and feeding.
01:56What was I going to say?
02:01This year has been particularly hot.
02:03We've had forest fires close by here as well, and in fact the hydroplanes have been coming
02:12down onto the lake to collect water to drop on the fires.
02:17And we had a spring as well of not much rain, which means water levels on the lake are really,
02:23really low and dropping fast.
02:27First, I scouted this location, which is one of the streams that feeds the lake, two days
02:34ago when I spotted one of the black stalks here and I thought I would come back and try
02:38and get some shots.
02:41And since then, just two, three days ago, the water level has dropped probably two, three
02:48feet.
02:51So it's quite difficult shooting conditions and whatever there is is quite far out now.
02:59That and the heat have just not allowed me to come out shooting.
03:07During the day it's just not worth it.
03:09The light is so harsh and there's so much heat distortion and it's so uncomfortable being
03:16out in the heat.
03:18And in the early mornings like this I've been prioritizing the pups because it's the only
03:24time of day I can take them out for a walk.
03:27The rest of the time it's just too unbearable, even the evenings are too hot.
03:36So I haven't been able to do much.
03:39Today, like I said, all I'm hoping to do is get a little bit of b-roll footage.
03:46I'll try and put a sequence together, which will not be so much story driven as it will
03:53be, just pretty pictures hopefully, of whatever comes along here.
03:59So I shall catch up with you in a bit, hopefully having got some shots, and I shall show you
04:08that sequence at the end.
04:09So I shall see you in a sec.
04:14Okay, so I think I'm going to call it there.
04:18I think I got a few shots, nothing too dramatic.
04:23One of the difficulties of shooting in the middle of the summer in Greece, at least, is that we
04:28don't get very atmospheric conditions.
04:35As soon as the sun rises it becomes really harsh really fast.
04:40So there's no lovely mist or anything like that to shoot through.
04:49So, not too much drama in the images.
04:54Like I said, I think I got a few shots.
04:58It was a nice shot of a great crested greep fishing along the stream here in front of me.
05:05Some terns diving on a school of fish in front of the egrets.
05:11And the black stalk, which unfortunately flew off.
05:18I think he was scared off by somebody that came down the embankment there, probably taking
05:24pictures.
05:26And they lifted the entire flock of birds.
05:29So there's only two, three birds in front of me now.
05:33So, not really worth me hanging around any longer.
05:37And like I said, the light is getting pretty harsh already on the birds in front of me.
05:44So thank you so much for watching and following along.
05:48I hope you enjoy the little sequence I put together for you.
05:51And I shall catch up with you again soon.
05:54Bye for now.
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