The Lake, Impington

Wanted to see how the Great Crested Grebe chicks were getting on. There are at least two, and it was interesting to see how demanding the chicks were when a parent bird surfaced (with or without fish). They kicked their feet out behind them and squawked, as if to attract attention. The second chick was just stretching I think.



Coming straight out of the sun to land were a couple of Canada Geese, and it was 'interesting' trying to capture them, in difficult lighting conditions!

More Wicken Fen

Had difficulties yesterday posting any more images on blog. Just one more of Mute Swan with cygnet on its back. Enjoyed seeing what I think were Roe Deer. Sadly the buck was without a right eye, but it didn't stop it racing after the doe at one point! A first for photographing a Little Grebe and a distant image of a Little Egret with its characteristic yellow feet. There was a young surface feeding duck like bird about twice the size of the Dab Chick which I couldn't identify - no sign of any adult around. Perhaps someone will be able to help?

Wicken Fen

Although the light wasn't special this morning, and the wind picked up as the morning progressed, I thoroughly enjoyed capturing a range of birds, some of which I hadn't taken photographs of before. I hadn't seen, or indeed photographed before, a cygnet riding on the back of a parent. What was intriguing was to watch the parent swan continuing to feed with its neck underwater much of the time.

Alongside The Cam

On today's walk there were quite a few different birds to photograph. I hadn't seen a Linnet down there before and it was lovely to take photographs of some of the numerous Whitethroats around.

More images of gulls and terns

More than the two images this time!




Able to confirm that black headed gulls are feeding when they swoop towards the water in this way.




I think this is a Whitethroat. Perhaps someone I know will let me know!

Back again!

Having been photographing birds recently, inspiration has struck and I plan to keep this blog going again. There seems to be so much to photograph these days...

The black headed gull images were taken a couple of weeks' ago at Paxton Pits, and the tern pictures were taken this morning - early! I think the 'little brown job' is a Whitethroat which was singing enthusiastically.