Psilos
Bird Journal |
Thursday January
24th 2008 |
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"A
windy day to remember" page 3 |
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Wigeon are another duck that
I struggle to get close flight shots of. Today the wind was to my advantage.
Blown off close and struggling with the wind a flock where blown ever
closer to the hide. |
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Lots of Shelduck
in the air against a blue sky is also an impressive sight. Martinmere
has the higest number of inland Shelduck in the UK. |
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Another bird blown inland by the wind was the Great er black backed gull. There were several of these birds around and they were harassing many birds. |
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The poor Moorhen
below was attacked and plucked from the water several times before he
gave up and th e indignant Moorhen could get away. |
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It felt strange to spend so long taking flight shots at Martinmere and never once pointing my camera at a swan. The simple truth was that there were no swans to point at. Only in the last half hour did the swans return to the mere and how could i possibly resist them? When faced with the howling winds when I arrived common sense should have told me that trying to take photographs in those conditions was hopeless. As it turned out this day has to rank as one of the best I have ever known and I am so glad that I persevered. |
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