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TITLE: Bittern crouched amongst reeds in evening sunshine
INFO: "Mid-January and my first trip of the year to Blashford and my first visit of the winter to Ivy North Hide to try for the Bittern(s) which had arrived before Christmas and were showing well (by all accounts). On this day I'd gone to the hide in early afternoon to find it really quite busy with birders and photographers and there had apparently been just fleeting glimpses of a single Bittern, so I wandered off, returning a couple of hours later and the hide was a lot less busy. Almost straight away a Bittern was spotted crossing the narrow channel to the north-east of the hide but it quickly disappeared into the main dense reedbed. About half an hour later it popped its head up nearer the eastern edge of the reedbed and had a good look round, giving a few shots, though a bit distant for me. It then moved nearer to the edge of the reedbed and seemed to settle in the glorious evening sunshine for this shot. As the bird subject is relatively small in the frame I've tried to incorporate some of the reedmace into the composition to give a typical kind of view of this secretive and well-camouflaged bird." January 2012 (Ivy North Hide) TECH: Nikon D700, Nikkor 200-400mm f4 zoom lens at 400mm with 1.4x teleconverter, ISO 1000, f8, 1/1000 sec. Lens rested on hide window shelf. Slightly cropped image (from full-frame FX-format image). |
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