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“Landscape” view/ much closer view (#15B in series: Berchtesgaden Alps)

 

You are looking at an alpine chough, flying overhead, just as we emerged from a “suprisingly” delicious lunch.

Not all “tourist venues with a view” serve bad food, and not all Bavarian restaurant fare is decidedly “meaty” and/or “stodgy”; our local trout, served very nearly atop the Jenner, was both lovely and light.

Alpine choughs are intelligent opportunists, so outdoor diners at the Jenner can expect “a close encounter”…or seven.

I did photograph some “opportunists” at table level, but Choughs are lovelier when on the wing.

(photo is ©️ Doug Spencer, taken at 1.02 pm, 11 October 2023. telephoto zoom lens, at 374 mm)

 

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