Another wild day. Strong wind throwing hard, semi hail showers bouncing off the patio. Stir crazy after a day indoors yesterday, we drove to Walcott with two aims in mind. Sea watching and testing my new camera. Three if you count watching a stormy sea, which we both love.
We stayed an hour, by which time my gloved hands were numb, eyes running and my face buffeted.
Most of the birds seen were flying north into the bitter north easterly wind, enough passage to keep me interested. Sea watching at Walcott is not the best as the birds are usually distant, as they were to-day. The hard horizon line foreshortened the view until the size of the passing Gannets emphasised their distance offshore. The most distant were adults, out numbered by the all dark 1cy birds a little nearer, along with a few piebald 2cy.
Small groups of Brent Geese hugging the waves, fast flying Eiders and Wigeon
One really needs to know how far the horizon is at Walcott.
Twenty Knot clearing the near troughs, three Red-throated Divers, 1 Great Northern Diver and several Auks. The latter, frustratingly, too distant to identify with any certainty, appearing intermittently through the heaving, tumultuous, white cap swell. A small passage of Kittiwakes too.
Twenty Knot clearing the near troughs, three Red-throated Divers, 1 Great Northern Diver and several Auks. The latter, frustratingly, too distant to identify with any certainty, appearing intermittently through the heaving, tumultuous, white cap swell. A small passage of Kittiwakes too.
A true test of the camera (a Canon DSLR 5D series IV ) was a small ship ploughing south at the very horizon. With my trusty 300mm lens what difference would the increased megapixels make to an enormously enlarged section of the photograph ?
A thoroughly enjoyable hour.
Lewis Hamilton became world champion for the 5th time at the Mexico Grand Prix.
And.......Man U beat Everton 2-1 despite Paul Pogba's show boating (keeping the nautical theme going).
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