This is a short sequence of a duck standing up in shallow water and stretching its wings. It was taken last Friday at Falmer Pond, but I’ve only just got round to processing the images from then. I really like the colour tones.
Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 400mm f/5.6L USM lens.
It was a good day for bird spotting, with local sightings of greenfinches, goldfinches, pied wagtails. Even a kestrel. For once though the herring gulls are going to take pride of place. These shots are part of a longer sequence I took on the grass banks just outside the buildings at work. The gull on the right is a semi-mature herring gull (judging by the plumage it looks like a 2-year old). It was supremely uninterested in feeding the fledgling.
One bonus shot tonight. It doesn’t really fit, but I like it and I did see it today. I’d heard the green woodpeckers in the woods when I was over at Seven Sisters this morning, and grabbed a few frames as one flew across the fields in its unmistakeable bobbing flight pattern. The background makes all the difference to this kind of distant-bird-flying image.
Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 400mm f/5.6L USM lens.
