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Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Fly Flatts , last light at the north end

           Male Stonechat, 1 of 3 males and 2 females present.



                                          Female

                                   Raven scouring the moor

                                   Passing the wind turbines

With the afternoon not going as smoothly as planned it was 1520 hours again when I finally got to Fly Flatts. Today I drove on to the north end and walked down to the water to check the ponds and banking there in well fading light but a brighter sky than yesterday with very little breeze.
                                                             16 Mallards were on the water along with a pair of Tufted and 2 Canadas whilst 3 Snipe flushed from around the ponds.
3 male and 2 female Stonechats were on walls near the water which I didnt expect to get any photos of with Big Bertha needing plenty light working at 600mm but the Canon 7d Mk 2 has got to be the best dslr camera body on the market at present working on manual settings you couldnt believe you could get away with producing bloggable record images .
                                                           Back on the south end a Raven was taking advantage of the last bit of bright sky scouring the moor for carrion.
BS