Scarborough

Having been busy with work and Christmas my blog and uploading in general has been very slow but I have a few days off work now to try catch up inbetween doing Surveys and trying to get to 100 on my year list before February. Back in early December, I went to Scarbrough with Steve Routledge in hope of a good days birding. Well it snowed for about 60% of the time we were in Scarborough but this gave a nice opportunity to photograph Med Gulls at Holbeach. Managed some reasonable shots throughout the day. All in all a good dat in the end. Thans to Steve for driving :)

Black-headed Gull

Colourfull Scarborough

Med Gull

Adult Med Gull

Ad Med Gull

Black-headed Gull

Ad Med Gull

Ad Med Gull

2nd Winter Juv

2nd winter Juv

Favourite from a bunch

 My Blog has been playign up anybody else having this problem?

Strawberries and Cream

Every so often I play about at home in my small studio set-up. Nothing to fancy simply a black background and a Speedlite as my light source. I had a good "hit rate" with about half being succesfull. I really like this set of images and will hopefully try it again in the future.



 

Photoshoped. Removed spoon handle to give it a floating effect.

My favourite.

Cleethorpes Boating Lake 05/11/2012

With the Purple Sandpiper not staying more than one day at Covenham Res, I felt it would be a waste not to take advantage of some nice light. So I took the camera down to Cleethorpes Boating Lake for 2 hours and rattled off some shots.

Pochard

Tufted Duck

Fast food. "i'm lovin it"

Male Sparrowhawk

Black-headed Gulls

Black-headed Gull

Purple Sandpiper 04/11/2012

A text from Dean Eades alerting me of a Purple Sandpiper at Covenham and I was on my way without a second thought. Arriving in dire light with Mark Johnson already on scene. The Purple Sandpiper showed really well just a shame about the light conditions. A Lincs, Year and Covenham Tick for myself, so I was well chuffed. Also 1 Grey Wagtail and 1 Male Goosander.

  

Red Deer Bradgate Park Leics

With the Red Deer rut in full flow, I wanted to photograph them. Before this I had never even seen a Red Deer and it would be my first real attempt at photographing Deer, apart from chance encounters. Dean Eades messaged me offering a place to do them on Friday morning. Obviously I took up his very kind offer. So I set my alarm for 4:30 to be at Dean's house at 5:45. I had a great day even if conditions for photography were shall we say tricky. No doubt I will go next year and the year after. A big thank you to Dean for driving, for getting me a Tripod, for putting me onto Decent birds and getting me a lincs tick in the form of Gannet.

Red Deer

Am I bothered?

Fallow Deer

Playfull rutting between Fallow Deer

Red Deer

Great Crested Grebe and Pheasant

Recently the Grebes at Covenham Reservoir have been showing quite well so I gave them a go for the last few visits although sometimes the light hasnt been great I was happy with how close I got to the birds. The Grebes have been acting a little strange dropping in numbers, confirmed by finding 12 dead on Sunday.