@[email protected] I did get quite a few. I was on leave last week and visited 8 different nature reserves. Still slowly processing through 1800 photos!

I might do some mini threads on the pictures from each visit

@[email protected] it’s great when they cooperate and fly close to a hide 😄. I was at Minsmere on Sunday and a Kestrel did the same thing. Hovering about 40m away and hunting through the reeds on several passes.

@[email protected] wow what a shot. That alignment on the wings so the underside is all in shadow but a bright head!

@[email protected] fuzzy borb!

@[email protected] very lucky! I seem to have the same rotten luck with seeing the Cranes at Strumpshaw. One sighting in May and nothing since.

Guess I’ll just have to keep going back

@[email protected] that’s a great shot, I saw one a long way off at the start of the year but haven’t seen it again yet.

@[email protected] yellow ankle socks!

@[email protected] I get what you’re saying but I am still making some basic mistakes here or there. Like just side step a touch to manoeuvre a branch out of the way a bit or get a little lower etc.

@[email protected] Thanks. I have been out in the garden every evening after work getting used to it more.

I was really happy with detail in the Greenfinch photos I posted. I just need to get better at composition.

@[email protected] good spot, it was the middle of the afternoon by the time I got there and baking hot on a clear day so not ideal conditions at all!

I think we got a bit over excited to try out the new kit so just went for it down there to see what we could see.

@[email protected] very nice, I managed to get a shot of one at Minsmere a couple weeks ago.

Testing out my new (to me) camera.

@[email protected] bookends to your trip so to speak.