winter sun and wildfowl

 a few wildfowl from a very windy day -- all with the new Canon R6II and the 400DO2 plus 2x converter

Cormorants and R6

 nice light and plenty of shades on the breeding plumage Cormorants at the weekend - the dynamic range of the R6 is impressive

a real mish mash

 Landing Black-tailed Godwit

 Displaying Cormorants

 Displaying Goshawk spec

 The local Red-necked Grebe

 Displaying drake Teal

flying targets

different sizes and speeds for the AF system

you can tell its a dull day when --

you start photographing Cormorants and Gadwall -- having said that this is probably the best photo of a flying Cormorant I have --

Cormorants

flying Cormorant

Turnstone and Cormorant

you can tell when a day is going to be a disaster when you hit the first traffic jam 3 miles from home -- memo AVOID Humber Bridge to Beverley 52 weeks of roadworks 30 mph if you ever make it above 5mph -- 25 minutes for 8 miles on way and 30 minutes the other -- memo 2 avoid Scarborough dug up, traffic lights that are designed to inflict maximum delay, 300 roundabouts per mile and 100's of people even on a Wednesday --

Cormorant fight

a skirmish over a fish

white breasted Cormorant

a leucistic feature or a racial feature?

Cormorant

Cormorant