7 October 2022 - Hollingworth Lake

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Teal, Kestrel

The weather's been a bit mixed this week, and with various appointments and such, I've not been round very often, though I did count 40+ Teal on the reserve on one day.  Today there were rather fewer Teal, though some were beginning to approach the hide; they never quite  come into proper range though, and the light today was rather poor, so the results are high ISO and somewhat grainy.

A Goldcrest and a Coal Tit were among a party of Long-tailed Tits moving through the willows in the Triangle.

Further round, a male Kestrel perched on some dead branches just over the wall at Bib Knowl Valley but again was quite distant.

Teal, 1/2000 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 12800 (view full size image)

Kestrel, 1/640 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 5000