Ok, this isn’t the promised post on gulls (though here’s a taster). Instead I’m posting a couple of photos of fallow deer taken yesterday at Pulborough Brooks RSPB reserve, in West Sussex.
I’ve also added a page with more fallow deer photos from the same sequence.
Being an RSPB reserve, there were of course plenty of birds to see as well, including a peregrine giving a group of ducks a mighty scare (the peregrine left emptied-clawed on this occasion).
There was also a small group (I counted four) of avocets, very possibly the first time I’ve seen or photographed this iconic bird.
Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 400mm f/5.6L USM lens.
derwandersmann
14 Aug 2014Wow! Quite a day! The avocet is a real prize; I’ve never seen one.
I’d love to watch that gull eat the starfish … I think it would be interesting to see how it’s done.
Words
15 Aug 2014dW, avocets had all but vanished back in the 1940s but some great conservation work helped their numbers recover. They are the symbol bird of the RSPB.
Darko
14 Aug 2014Interesting birds, I remember seeing their photographs but I was not sure if they live in Europe or Canada. Apparently, American Avocet lives in Pacific Mexico and maybe I’ve even seen them there last year, but can’t be sure.
Words
15 Aug 2014Darko, I don’t know too much about them, other than their numbers here are still quite limited. Very pretty things and unmistakeable when you do see them.