PhilHemsley

Great Bustard

Great Bustard

Delightful to see a female Great Bustard at Stonehenge last week She was totally at ease with humans sharing her space and wandered to within a metre away from...
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Delightful to see a female Great Bustard at Stonehenge last week She was totally at ease with humans sharing her space and wandered to within a metre away from my daughter and I as we lay on the grass photographing this bird.

Excellent to know these once nationally extinct birds are doing well on their re-introduction to Salisbury Plain.

Pentax K3
Sigma 50-500mm f4.5-6.3 APO DG OS HSM lens
f-8
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PENTAX K-3

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Aperture f/8 ISO 800 Shutter 1/1000 Focal Length 9300/100

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Wiltshire, GB

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Apr, 2019

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