The three Little Stints and a Ringed Plover
Little Stints
Young Shelduck
Black-tailed Godwit
Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta
Southern Hawker - Aeshna cyanea
There's a Kingfisher in there somewhere.
...Ta dah!
Monday, 22 September 2014
In Flight
I've been out and about on patch a few times today. First thing this morning I went to Black Hole Marsh hoping to get some nice photos of the Little Stints. Unfortunately they simply weren't playing and remained about as far away as they possibly could. When they did eventually move they flew off out onto the estuary. I did get a couple of shots of them in flight though. After lunch I popped over to Seaton Marshes and took a stroll around the borrow pit. There were stacks of Common Darters and Migrant Hawkers but the icing on the cake here was getting some flight shots of a Male Southern Hawker, something I've never managed before. Then this evening back to Black Hole Marsh where the Little Stints continued to evade me but I did get a few distant action shots of a Kingfisher.
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5 comments:
the godwit, hawker, and kingfisher shots are terrific!
Love the flight shots,very impressed with the Southern Hawker,I'm still trying to perfect the art.
John.
Thanks Wilma and John both :-)
Trouble with Southern Hawkers John is that they aren't as prone to hover, Migrant Hawker best to practice on coz they love hovering!
How the hell do you get the shots of a flying dragonfly? Must have a look at my auto focus manual notes. Brilliant.
Wow I'm really impressed by the dragonfly photos! I have Southern Hawkers flying around my pond which do hover (and look at me and and say ya boo sucks) but only when I am not pointing a camera at them.
Anyway I wanted to say thank you because I've just looked up where these places are that you have mentioned, as I will be in Somerset staying with my mum in mid November, and Seaton is only half an hour from where she lives, so it's somewhere interesting to go birdwatching relatively nearby!
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