This week started off with decent weather and has rapidly deteriorated so my expeditions breitling replica have been confined to Monday afternoon and Tuesday this week with no great expectations for tomorrow either. Anyway, we have family coming to stay for a few days from tomorrow evening so the earliest I can see me picking up the camera in earnest is the end of next week.

Last Monday afternoon, I went to nearby Burwell Fen to see if the recently reported arrival of Short-eared Owls was a reality. I parked at the western end of the fen, walked over the bridge and into the fen to keep the sun behind me and waited - and waited - and waited. I got so bored that I even succumbed to a fly-by shot of a Greylag Goose

and a Little Egret.

Have you ever had that feeling that you were being watched? Well I did mid-afternoon hublot replica  but could see nothing. Then a Roe Deer popped up quite close from behind some reeds and studied me in greater detail. Then it quietly ambled off over the mere.

One Short-eared Owl showed right the other end of the fen and that was all.

Then the change of hour caught up and dusk approached so I took a silhouette of a pair of fly-by Mute Swans

and returned to the car - to find a Short-eared Owl circling just above it. Well a few shots at 5.00pm at a very high ISO and just one was a keeper.

The next day. I went with a friend to Holland Haven in Essex to try for the very showy juvenile Rough-legged Buzzard. The weather changed to a dull grey and initially the bird stayed very distant.

I could not resisit a Meadow Pipit that alighted on a nearby fence post

and finally the Rough-leg started to fly and, after several distant circuits eventually came close although the grey sky was a real problem

and finally hovered close.

It would have been a decent day except for the weather but we have to make what we can of the conditions.