21 October 2025 - Hollingworth Lake

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5 Wigeon, Stock Dove, Med Gull

Back to desultory overcast (and quite wet) conditions this morning. I did notice a small party of ducks flying around and these proved to be 5 Wigeon; I managed some silhouette shots, but they didn't seem to land, and shortly afterwards were gone. When I reached the turnoff to the reserve from Rakewood Road, I spotted a Stock Dove on a dry stone wall, sat between two Woodpigeons for convenient comparison.

Little else was noted on the rest of my walk until I got back to the Rowing Club car park, where the faithful Mediterranean Gull was on the shoreline, asleep with a few other gulls.

Wigeon, 1/2500 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 3200 (view full size image)

Stock Dove, 1/500 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 5000 (view full size image)

Mediterranean Gull, 1/640 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 1000