Tuesday, February 27, 2018

a bit snowy but not very much

Two of yesterday's three Slavonian Grebes remained today but the drake Smew appeared to have moved on -- Goldeneye are up to around 70 the highest count of the winter














Sunday, February 25, 2018

Tufted Ducks

the Canon 5D4 certainly produces the best IQ and tonal range of any digital camera I have used but light is everything






local 2cy female Marsh Harrier still in situ

still eating dead Starlings but presumably also something else






better light on the Alkborough Buzzard




some naked photography

I would guess that 90% of people who have a big telephoto lens have a converter of some description on the lens 95% of the time; the best converters like the Canon 1.4x are truly excellent but lenses must in theory perform at their best when used alone so here are a few I tried with the 400 DO2 and no converter; 5D4