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Welney WWT Norfolk

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Tanzania Day 11 - Ndutu

Sunday 17th November 2024

The Canon R5 MK2 and Norfolk

Tuesday 29th October 2024

The new camera has arrived

Monday 21st October 2024

Somewhere new to visit

Monday 14th October 2024

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Tanzania Day 8 - The Serengeti

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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

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Thursday 22nd August 2024

Last weekend, I returned from a family holiday in Gran Canaria - a great time was had by all. We have been to the same hotel for the past four years and one of the advantages for me is that there is a freshwater lake just a 10 minute walk from the hotel - La Charca de Maspalomas.

Previously I have had some good photos from there but not this year. The water level was so high that all the birds were on the far side - a protected nature reserve with no public access - too distant for any photography. The annoying part was that I spotted 34 species of birds in the area and three that I had not photographed before - such is life.

So, with the car needing washing after 2 weeks in the drive, I went to Fowlmere RSPB, just down the road from the car wash. I  took my new 200-800 lens with the Canon R5.

Fowlmere can be good or disappointing - it was the latter. However, I continued to try out the lens - a close-up of a Mallard

and then on to the Reedbed hide to see - a large flock of Greylags and little else.

Even common birds can do something interesting at times.

so I tried something new to see the result - first I added a 1.4 converter to the set-up making a shooting distance of 1120mm

Pleased with that so I tried the 2x converter making a shooting distance of 1600mm. I have rareley been impressed with a 2x converter but it was worth a try as there was nothing else happening.

Well that cleaned up nicely in Topaz - very pleased with that, especially since it was cloudy by then and at ISO8000.

So not a totally wasted day after all.

Now back to the remaining photos from my Tanzania trip.