Poor show at Drift

Choice today, got to the mayhem and parking chaos at Falmouth to photograph the Red Arrows or go to Drift. Well like an idiot I chose Drift. Sighting of a Great White Egret mean't I could hopefully get a better shot than I did at Marazion last time I saw this bird.  Being totally inconsiderate it didn't show (Rach's blog did say some people may of spooked it) after I had dragged my tripod and 600mm rig the length of the resevoir; the lows of nature photography. Not a great deal of anything else was on show either, so I shall go straight to the poor return from today!!!

Nice close up here worth englarging

He was also bored at Drift

Greylag

Two Hours at Stithians

Visited Stithians for a couple of hours today between 12.30pm and 2.30pm. The yellow thing in the sky even came out!!!! And my first opportunity to get out for some pictures for a couple of weeks. Back to rain tomorrow-arghh!!! Still I have three weeks off now so hopefully there will be some good weather? Very quiet at Stithians, pictures mostly distant, notably the Greenshank, just good enough for a web post. Off topic now RED ARROWS in Falmouth on Wednesday evening anyone know a good vantage point  for pictures away from the town centre???

Ok onto todays efforts:

Curlew flew over before descending into a distant field

Greenshank with lunch

Greenshank in flight

? on the Southern Cut Off

Old Birds Return to Cornwall

Off topic again, however not getting shoots in as often as possible so I am posting these. Great to see the Vulcan Bomber in the air again over Cornwall.

Quiet Weekend

Well after a busy weekend last weekend I popped down to Stithians Resevoir and Hells Mouth. All very quiet animal wise. The yellow thing in the sky came out and so did about six million people (well a lot). So I guess it will back onto the less well known spots for the next few weeks. Holiday makers and dogs, just great when your trying to get pictures!!!! Still managed a couple from distance for the record. Also now a chance to catch up on the blogs over the next few days. Think I am about ten days behind.

Family Fulmar

Kestrel scours the cliffs for food.

Off Topic

This weekend I have been busy assisting at a  charity event in Helston Cornwall. Hard work drinking "Spingo" the local ale in The Blue Anchor all  day, gets a bit blurry after a while!  A music event held over three days "Helstonbury" to raise  money to assist local kids. It was originally started ten years ago to raise £1700 for a local girl who needed an hi tech wheelchair and it sort of grew from there really.  Now in its tenth year, this year I tweaked some of the images using the presets in lightroom 3. Getting the right pre-set for the image is key here:

The Quarter Pounders, one of the colour pre-sets.

Not The Beatles , aged photo

Dizzy Lizzy, Black and white pre-set

Normal natural world images will be posted as normal when I next get out, hopefully a more in depth look at lightroom 3

Porthgwarra

Headed out early today to Porthgwarra at 8am for some seabird photography. Unfortunately this wasn't early enough! I got there as the sun was on my left the birds were also coming from the left so two hours earlier and I would of been ok. Lots and lots of Gannets observed, and it is also good to see the coast in this area is a rejunvenated lush green full of life. When I went last year it was mostly brown and dried out.  Butterflies and small insects are in abundance so next time I visit I shall pop down on the heath instead of the cliffs and concentrate on some macro.

Gannet

Guillimot

A grey seal in one of the coves.

Gannets, there were many groups larger than this full of adults and youngsters.