New Year's Day at Titchwell

 On New Year's Day, ten RPS Nature Group Members, partners and friends spent the day photographing the many species present at Titchwell admid crowds of bird watchers there to start their 2020 new bird lists. The day started overcast with poor light conditions for bird photography but the cloud gradually lifted to give a sunny afternoon with perfect lighting on the beach. I think curlew are may favourite in flight birds but the Oystercatcher came a close second. Lots of waders and ducks to test the camera focusing plus a very obliging Little Egret. Even a glimpse of an Otter but it was so quick as it undulated through the water.

 

Norfolk Tour - Welney WWT Reserve

Welcome to Norfolk to Jan and David from one cute and very small jumping spider and a rather muddy swallow. This was the first stop on our tour round some of Norfolk's bird reserves. Beautiful warm sunny day with enough birds to keep us occupied all day - Reed Warblers, Reed Bunting, Black-Tailed Godwit, Marsh Harrier, Lapwing, Peregrine and Heron (with  lots of nesting Avocets)

Black-Tailed Godwits

The late afternoon sun and the clear storm air revealed the full beauty of the Black-Tailed Godwits' plumage as they fed, bathed and slept all to a very rough water backdrop. Shame I didn't pick up focus on the front bird in the 'dragonfly' formation flight.