28 August 2022 - Hollingworth Lake

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Spotted Flycatcher, Blackcap, Speckled Wood, Small White, Small Copper

It was another nice morning today so Joanne came with me on my walk.  Almost the first bird we saw was a Spotted Flycatcher perched up in the 'big hedge'.  I took a couple of quick shots but somehow managed to miss the focus, and when I tried to get a little closer, it had disappeared. A female Blackcap was feeding on Elder berries in the same area.  

We met up with Gloria, so Joanne decided to go back the other way with her, and I carried on over Turnough to Shaw Moss.  There wasn't much to see apart from the odd butterfly, but I did encounter my first Small Copper of the year at Shaw Moss; unfortunately it was a somewhat bedraggled individual, not the nice pristine specimen I was hoping for.

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

Speckled Wood, 1/500 sec, f/14.0, 500 mm, ISO 1600 (view full size image)

Small White, 1/500 sec, f/13.0, 500 mm, ISO 640 (view full size image)

Small Copper, 1/500 sec, f/11.0, 500 mm, ISO 500 (view full size image)