Tell me now it's untrue

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Here are two more photographs of the capercaillie which was so friendly towards me in Nuuksio last Thursday.

(Posting title is from the song Janie's Got a Gun by Aerosmith.)

This joy, it swallows itself far too soon!

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The photographs were taken yesterday morning in the north parts of Nuuksio, within a swamp that is circled by hills from all sides. It is the time of courtship display for capercaillies. Never before has it happened that one of the birds comes to present himself to me, and was not afraid at all.

The bird followed me a couple of hundred meters across the swamp, and I took a lot of photographs, but had to leave because my fingers and toes were getting cold as the temperature was at -22 °C.

I even took three short video clips, even though I usually never use the LX100 for taking videos. When I listen to the sound in the video, it almost feels as if the bird would be trying to say "isä", which means "father" in Finnish. (Thanks to Atso Almila‏ for pointing this out on Twitter.)

(Posting title is from the poem Bay Window Lauds by Marcus Wicker.)