Photography Workshop, Northumberland Coast
I had a photography workshop booking yesterday. Nigel Tinlin who lives in Gosforth came out for the day to improve his wildlife photography. We met at St mary’s Island it was pouring with rain so we headed up the coast to get out of the rain. We went to Cresswell Pond into the hide. it was a quiet day noy too much around but there was a sedge warbler next to the hide which was quite obliging but not easy to photograph because of focusing problems with the reeds. We dicussed preperation, exposure, focusing an during the day we applied the priciples to the photography. Some of the...
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I was driving near home, past Leet Water which is smal river and saw this oystercatcher have in a bath and preening. I like the light on the subject and the way the action has beeen frozen by the camera. Canon 50D 500mm f4 L IS USM lens mitsubishi outlander for a hide.
read moreA Trip down the coast
I had a birding tour out today from my other business Borders Bidwatching Tours. (www.borders-birdwatching.co.uk). We started at St Abbs, it was a beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky. It was a very busy scene with birds coming and going, the light was superb. We watched the fulmars and kittiwakes flying around gracefully. The guillemots and razorbills where all very busy at theirt nest sites and the gannets where moving off shore in long lines heading for their nesting grounds at bass rock just up the coat in the Forth Estuary. We moved from St Abb’s down the coast to the...
read moreSt Abbs Head, Borders
I went up to St Abb’s Head today to check out how far the birds have got in respect to nesting. I couldn’t see any eggs but the birds are on the nest sites and defending them. Kittiwakes, razorbills guillemot, fulmar, ravens, cormorants, shags, with passing gannets at sea. I was watching the kittiwakes flying in and around the cliffs and trying to get some pictures. I saw a pair of kittiwakes fighting over a nest site and tumbling down the cliff face.
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I called into Hauxley Nature Reserve this afternoon. I was with two friends who are both wildlife photographers, Vee and Colin, Colin is a Yorkshire but we wont hold that against him. We got into the hide and immediately there was a redshank in breeding plumage quite close, graylag goose where coming and going and we got some good shots of the landing on the water. During the morning Colin described the prostrate examination he had at the doctors the previous morning, in great detail which had Vee and I laughing our socks off. Swallows where dipping on the water but very difficult to get...
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