<\/span> <\/p>\nThe swifts are almost as tricky but they tend to circle more persistently which at least means you get lots of 'goes' at capturing them in the camera. The best opportunities though come when the subject decides to do you a favour and come down on to dry (or at least, muddy) land. Swallows do this, and so too do the house martins. Even better, what comes down also goes up, and photographing a take-off is child's play (relatively speaking). In between tying myself in knots with those shots, I did take a few of the other inhabitants. First a young pied wagtail. Next, a juvenile moorhen (they grow up so quickly). The goslings currently come in two sizes (and colour schemes). First some recent arrivals. After a few weeks, the gold turns to grey (they are greylags, after all), and they start to lose their hair (surely life by the pond isn't that stressful!). As for the ducklings, they're moulting too and some of them are just discovering their wings. They are not yet ready to fly, but there's no reason not to enjoy a good old stretch.
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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980],"tags":[1176,340,562,1172,120,1165,1186],"class_list":["post-1935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-duckling","tag-gosling","tag-house-martin","tag-moorhen","tag-pied-wagtail","tag-swallow","tag-swift","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t