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I treated myself to a second hand lens, a Sigma DG 50-500mm 1:4.5-6.3 APO HSM. That’s a bit of a mouthful, and it’s a heavy beast as well…
Spotted when I was out for a walk. I think is a male, and that the females are duller. The blue was exquisite and what was what drew…
I love the fluffy seed heads on bulrushes, and here I also love the contrast between the sharp stalks, and the water behind. Shutter speed: 1/320s Aperture: ƒ/5.6 ISO: 200 Focal…
Another image showing that close to they are not just white – there are subtle hints of warm colour. I think this is a male as the black…
Sometimes the swans on Gaddon Loch got lucky and someone would feed them. Here they are trekking back from the edge to one of the holes in the…
A few of the swans decided that a mixture of running and flapping might be easier than waddling back to the holes in the ice. This swan hasn’t…
Back at Birnie Loch, the hard winter continued and most of the surface was frozen. The birds were keeping a few holes open, and I spotted this Black-headed Gull…
Still at Birnie Loch! This is one of the 2009 cygnets part-way through the process of changing it’s brown immature plumage for the white of an adult. It…
Also taken at Birnie Loch. Judging by the size of the black knob at the base of his bill, this looks like a cob (male) swan to me….
I found my new lens was excellent for ‘wildlife’ photography. Actually the resident birds at Birnie and Gaddon Lochs are fairly habituated to people, and this duck was quite…