I've been so used to checking the flock of small waders on the beach in the mornings this week - and not seeing the Semipalmated Sandpiper - that I didn't even both carrying my telescope and cameras this morning....
So when I did spy it roosting on the pebbles I had to leg it back to the car to get what I needed to do this. I warn you, there are a heck of a lot of photos!!!!
All these are taking with my trusty old Nikon Coolpix 4500 through my Kowa telecope....
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And these are all taken with my hand held Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35 (and most using full 18x optical zoom)....
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I told you so! Loads and loads and loads of photos! God knows what the pictures would look like if I had a 'proper camera!'
There are a couple of things I think are worth mentioning from the excellent views I had of this American beauty this morning:
1/ its leg colour - viewable on most of my pictures
2/ the 'anchor marks' on some of the scaps - there aren't many and they aren't obvious!
It's a great bird - and I felt so privileged to be so close to it!!
Lastly, a bit of late news for yesterday, I got down to the Estuary just in time to see an Osprey fly south over Axmouth Bridge, and south east past Axe Cliff. Apparently later it came back though - it would be nice to think it was still here.
So when I did spy it roosting on the pebbles I had to leg it back to the car to get what I needed to do this. I warn you, there are a heck of a lot of photos!!!!
All these are taking with my trusty old Nikon Coolpix 4500 through my Kowa telecope....
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And these are all taken with my hand held Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35 (and most using full 18x optical zoom)....
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There are a couple of things I think are worth mentioning from the excellent views I had of this American beauty this morning:
1/ its leg colour - viewable on most of my pictures
2/ the 'anchor marks' on some of the scaps - there aren't many and they aren't obvious!
It's a great bird - and I felt so privileged to be so close to it!!
Lastly, a bit of late news for yesterday, I got down to the Estuary just in time to see an Osprey fly south over Axmouth Bridge, and south east past Axe Cliff. Apparently later it came back though - it would be nice to think it was still here.