5 November 2022 - Hollingworth Lake

« Newer   |   Older »

Partial albino Carrion Crow, Cormorants, Snipe

Back to dull conditions again today, overcast with drizzle.  As I walked along Rakewood Road, I noticed the Carrion Crow with white wing-flashes; I've seen this a few times but never managed to capture it on film, but it landed just on the marshy area not far from the road.  Unfortunately as I lifted the camera it flew and I didn't have the right settings, so missed the opportunity really, and only captured a blurred shot as it disappeared into the channel.

A Grey Heron fed in the channel to the left of the hide; I waited a while to see if it would catch anything, but it didn't, and then when I'd left, I looked again through the trees and saw it swallowing a large fish!

A total of 19 Cormorants were on the mudflats off the reserve, maybe the best count this autumn so far.

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

Cormorant, 1/2000 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 1250 (view full size image)