Last Monday, 16th February, I had resigned myself to another day on the computer as the weather forecast was dull and rainy all day. However, early afternoon some signs of brightness appeared so I grabbed the kit and drove to my closest reserve, Fen Drayton Lakes, not expecting anything of interest as usual.

The reserve was as flooded as I can remember with water too deep for the car to negotiate, a hundred metres or so before the busway crossing. There was a flock of Greylage Geese on the adjacent field with a few White-fronted Geese intermingled although rather too distant for my liking.

Needs must so I bolted on the 1.4x converter to the 200-800 lens to see what quality of shots would result. To get good results, the sun should be showing for better light, in my experience and it appeared occasionally so these are the best of a load of shots taken.

A combination of Lightroom, Photoshop and Topaz PhotoAI combined to make these shots acceptable so not a totally wasted trip but when will we get some sun?