More Whoopers

Here are a few more shots from yesterday, I was really surprised with the first shot of a young Whooper when I got home, I have only cropped this a little no other edits have been done.

If you where wondering about the dots on the last shot these where geese in the distance.

Hope you liked the shots.

All photos taken with a Nikon D70 + Sigma 170-500mm.

Whooper Swan

Having watched a week of Autumn Watch I thought it only right to go to Martin Mere to see what's been happening (Martin Mere has hosted Autumn Watch for the past 2 years in case you didn't know).

I can definitely confirm that the Whooper swans have arrived and where landing in numbers whilst I was there, here are a few shots from this afternoon, I have a load I am going through and will post more over the next few days.


I only wish it hadn't been so dull.

All photos taken with Nikon D70 + Sigma 170-500mm.

Grey Day

As you may know the weathers been really terrible and Sunday morning wasn't much better.

Martin Mere was pretty dismal, overcast and still dark until around 10.30am.

There wasn't a great deal going on, after scanning around with the binoculars there wasn't a single wader in sight. There was a buzzard sitting on a fence post quite far away and the whooper swans & greylag geese where coming and going to the local fields.

Despite the weather and my hands freezing cold I managed to get a couple of shots:


And not strictly wild but I couldn't resist this Manderin duck, truly stunning bird.

All shots taken with Nikon D70 + Sigma 170-500mm

Another day at the Mere

Great time of year to be visiting Martin Mere WWT plenty of whooper swans and wading birds.

We even managed to see Bill & Kate knocking about, more importantly though I managed to get some really nice late afternoon shots and I think the theme is reflection, everything I took was casting a lovely reflection in the water.

I've posted a few of my favourites for you to see.

I even managed a shot of a lesser grey head.

Martin Mere

My local patch or local WWT, I've been going there for a few years now and it never fails to amaze me, from the breeding birds in spring to the migrant in Autumn.

I can spend hours just sitting there listening to all the sounds. For me its the total switch off, whilst looking at all the different species of birds or walking from hide to hide nothing else enters your mind.

Over time I have taken hundreds if not thousands of photos, but here are a couple of my favourites.