22 October 2022 - Hollingworth Lake

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Redwings, Fieldfares, Sparrowhawk, Long-tailed Tits

A nice walk this morning in fairly bright sunshine.  As I arrived at the bridge by the gate, I noticed a movement in a hawthorn, and there were two Redwings and a Blackbird feeding on the berries.  I managed a couple of shots of one of the Redwings before they flew deeper into cover.  A little further round, a group of Long-tailed Tits was feeding in the Willow triangle, and then I noticed a fairly distant Sparrowhawk perched up on the 'big hedge' hillside.  I took some photos from the path and tried to get a little closer around the back of the triangle, but it flew off before I was in range.

The rest of the walk mainly featured parties of Redwings and Fieldfares going over or flitting around.  Around 30 or more Fieldfares went over while I was in the hide, and a few Redwings were flitting around at the top of Bib Knowl, so I tried my hand at some flight shots...

Redwing, 1/2500 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 1600 (view full size image)

Redwing , 1/2500 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 1600 (view full size image)

Long-tailed Tit, 1/2000 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 3200 (view full size image)

Sparrowhawk, 1/2000 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 1600

Fieldfares, 1/2000 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 250 (view full size image)

Redwing , 1/2000 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 2500

Redwing , 1/2000 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 400 (view full size image)

Redwings-, 1/2000 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 400 (view full size image)