Dark-bellied Brent Geese - motion blur

 On a very, very dull morning yesterday the Brents were very co-operative so after taking the usual flight and flock shots with no impact decided to try some motion blur shots - 1/25th second was interesting and even 1/40th failed to keep up with flying birds or was it my tracking? herewith a batch of different images - seems to be a decent number of juveniles this winter- 

Dark-bellied Brent Geese

Black Brant and Dark-bellied Brents

the male still showing well at Donna today

Dark-bellied Brents and Black-tailed Godwits

an out of place flock of 17 Dark-bellied Brents at Pywipe yesterday held 7 juveniles a good % -- still 4500 Black-tailed Godwits hanging on

Dark-bellied Brent Geese

Dark-bellied Brents all the way from Siberia

when I started birding in th elate 60's Brents were still pretty rare on the north Lincs coast but now we take them fro granted; great birds though but always wary in Lincs in direct contrast to Norfolk -- why do they react so differently to people in two areas that are so close by? maybe the local farmers attitudes --

Dark-bellied Brent Geese

15 minutes as I was passing

quick stop off at the diver as I was passing for 15 mins and some Dark-bellied Brents from the morning survey