November 2008 Martinmere - Come mid afternoon early winter and the sun slowly starts to sink giving soft light cast over the calm waters of the mere. Shelducks quietly sleeping on the far banks start to stir from their lazy slumbers. Like all of the birds they sense the shifting of the daylight hours and know that very soon they will be fed. Three oclock arrives and the food is put down. As one the Shelduck move in. Far from being shy they drop in over the Whooper swans landing vertically and with precision in front of the hide. Hovering they carefully select the place to land and hungrily join the feast.

Canon 30d 400mm f5.6 iso 500 @ 1/2500