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\u00b7 Biebrza \u00b7 May 2026<\/div><h1>Dawn over the wetlands<\/h1><\/section><section class=\"wkc-section\"><div class=\"wkc-meta\"><span>6 min read<\/span><span>14 photos<\/span><\/div><div class=\"wkc-lead\">Three mornings in the hide, one bittern, and a mist that wouldn't lift. A report from a May trip to the Biebrza.<\/div><div class=\"wkc-prose\"><p>I got up at three. Thermos, backpack, tripod \u2014 and a kilometre of wading through marshland before the sky began to grey. At this hour the Biebrza still belongs to the birds, and a human is only a guest here, one who has to keep quiet.<\/p><p>After an hour of waiting I heard the bittern's distinctive \u201cbooming\u201d \u2014 one of the hardest birds to photograph in Poland. Hidden in the reeds, almost invisible, it gave itself away only by its voice.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"wkc-figure\"><div class=\"ph\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(150deg,#5a6a8a,#1c243a)\"><\/div><div class=\"wkc-figcap\">Mist over the wetland, 4:42 a.m.<\/div><\/div><div class=\"wkc-prose\"><p>The mist clung to the water long after sunrise. It's what creates the mood here \u2014 it scatters the light, mutes the colours and makes every bird look as if cut out of a fairy tale.<\/p><p>I came back with a dozen or so frames, a few of which made it to the shop. But the most important thing stayed in my head: that moment when the world wakes with a voice you won't hear anywhere else.<\/p><\/div><a href=\"\/en\/shop\/\" class=\"wkc-related\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#2a241c\"><div class=\"ph\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(150deg,#7a8a5a,#2a2a14)\"><\/div><div style=\"flex:1\"><div style=\"font-size:11px;color:#b07f30;letter-spacing:1px\">PRINT FROM THIS EXPEDITION<\/div><div style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:18px;margin:3px 0\">Bittern in the mist<\/div><div style=\"font-size:13px;color:#6b5836\">from 89 z\u0142<\/div><\/div><span class=\"wkc-btn wkc-btn-primary\">Zobacz<\/span><\/a><div style=\"max-width:720px;margin:30px auto 0\"><a href=\"\/en\/wyprawy\/\" style=\"color:#b07f30;text-decoration:none\">\u2190 All expeditions<\/a><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wyprawa \u00b7 Biebrza \u00b7 maj 2026 \u015awit nad rozlewiskami 6 min czytania14 zdj\u0119\u0107 Trzy poranki w czatowni, jeden b\u0105k i [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-989","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wojciechkusnierczyk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wojciechkusnierczyk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wojciechkusnierczyk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wojciechkusnierczyk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wojciechkusnierczyk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wojciechkusnierczyk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/wojciechkusnierczyk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/989\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wojciechkusnierczyk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}