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Friday 4th October - North Norfolk

Monday 7th October 2024

Tanzania Day 8 - The Serengeti

Saturday 5th October 2024

Two trips out with little to show.

Wednesday 25th September 2024

Tanzania Day 7 - The Serengeti

Monday 23rd September 2024

Abberton Reservoir - again

Thursday 19th September 2024

Abberton Essex

Wednesday 11th September 2024

A morning at Grafham Water

Thursday 29th August 2024

After holiday blues

Thursday 22nd August 2024

Trying out a new lens

Monday 5th August 2024

Tanzania Day 5 - Ngorogoro Crater

Saturday 27th July 2024

Kevin Robson's Tawny Owl hide

Thursday 25th July 2024

Local stuff

Saturday 20th July 2024

More local stuff

Saturday 29th June 2024

Catching up with a local rarity

Friday 14th June 2024

Tanzania - Day 1 - Arusha

Monday 13th May 2024

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Monday 19th January 2015

Whoever coined the phrase ????fest really started a craze that is seriously overdone these days.

Visiting Eldernell in the north of the county last Friday for the Short-eared Owls was definitely and replica watches Owl-fest. I had visited a couple of weeks ago and drew a big fat blank. Reports since then indicated up to 8 present but for the first couple of hours, there was nothing except for one lone Short-eared Owl that showed for a couple of minutes only

About 2.30 pm, the show started with up to 5 showing, some very close giving excellent opportuntities for photos.

One even gave the head on shot

A flypast of distant Whooper Swans gave a rather different shot

In total, over a couple of hours, I took nearly 600 shots and surprisingly, 150 of rolex replica watches themwere good enough to be keepers. This was down to the Canon 7D MK2. If the first of a burst of shots was in focus, the camera maintained focus throughout the burst. So any out of focus shots were purely down to operator error.

In the end, despite very heavy editing, I kept 80 of the shots although only a few are posted to this website. More images are in the Recent Additions section.