Wildlife View Blog

This was a very special day for me, since on this day I developed the decision to invest more into this hobby. I didnt have much time that time and was pretty beaten since it was a friday after a stressy work week. But the desire to go out and shoot sth was just to great. Wheather also was great and I decided to visit the “Südharz”.

The southern Harz or “Südharz” is part of the harz-mountains, which is a relatively low mountain region in the middle of Germany. The biggest mountain in the harz is the “Brocken” with just over 1000m.

I went there recently and ironically only saw bigger birds on the lower fields, and on the mountains there were none – i wonder if thats coincidence or im missing sth 😀 anyways I found one buzzard and wanna share these photos of yet another “common/mice buzzard”. These photos are shot handheld and are the most recents photos as of today.

Time and location: Nov 2025, location: “Südharz”, Lower Saxony, Germany

Shot with: a6700, 200-600 f/5.6-6.3 G @600mm f/8, 1/1000, ISO6400 2859×1847

I didnt expect it to just suddenly jumpfly a few meters and need to use my camera panic button more 😀 surprisingly the photo still turned out fine.

Time and location: Nov 2025, location: “Südharz”, Lower Saxony, Germany

Shot with: a6700, 200-600 f/5.6-6.3 G @600mm f/8, 1/1500, ISO3200 4128×2155

Later It spotted me and retreated to a tree further back. This also is the first RAW I shot – everything else until now has been .jpeg. Over this day I decided to invest more into this hobby and wanted to do some RAW shots as well, to be edited later.

Time and location: Nov 2025, location: “Südharz”, Lower Saxony, Germany

Shot with: a6700, 200-600 f/5.6-6.3 G @600mm f/8, 1/1000, ISO6400 2075×1378