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Bird on a Big Stick!

Bird on a Big Stick!

Female Great Spotted Woodpecker raiding food put out in old rotten branch...

Female Great Spotted Woodpecker raiding food put out in old rotten branch...
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Canon EOS-1D X

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Aperture 71/10 ISO 4000 Shutter 1/400 Focal Length 600/1

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Nov, 2016

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A day on the kingfishers...

Better weather meant a chance to go and catch up with some old friends - and here one is making the most of a dragonfly larvae lunch!

A day on the kingfishers...

Taken from a hide at a local Nature Reserve in South Wales as the bird flew in to the edge of the lake for a fishing expedition.

Trip to Wye Valley Butterfly Zoo to try something a little different from birds...

Taken on a trip to Deal in Kent

A day on the kingfishers...

Swinging in to the wind before landing on an old piling in the lake...

Sitting in a hide can have some reward. Great Egret (Ardea alba) came a-visiting.
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Trip to Wye Valley Butterfly Zoo to try something a little different from birds...

A shortie just before it pounced on some unsuspecting small furry thing (probably a vole or mouse) unfortunately the grass was long enough to hide any

A shot from a recent trip to one of my favourite locations to womble around with a camera...

A young man of my acquaintance walking back to his mum to continue queuing after watching a miniature train off through the fence at a local open day,

Another shot from a fave location...boats at Dungeness offer lots of compositional opportunities...

Often the weather can make or break a photography session, and luckily for me the snow that fell briefly on this particular day really made this shot

Great White Egret coming in to land at Kenfig Nature Reserve...

Great Spotted Woodpecker (Male) surveying the area...

Juvenile Heron Seeing off a Great Egret from the top of a tree....

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