Monday 10 December 2012

Water Rail

Sorry for my lack of posting this last month, I have had a lack of material but still enough for a few posts so I hope to put a few out over the next week or so.

Today I got my first pictures of Water Rail, these have been showing well in scarborough's Northstead Manor Gardens since our freeze over a week ago. I was hoping for reports this am. so that I knew chances were good but nothing until 11:40 which reported two birds.

When I got there one bird was present and a short while after there was two, always distant or elisive for a while in awful light. Finally though it did brighten a yad and one bird showed well in a pool not to far off. Some shots were as low as ISO 1250!

Taken with Canon 40D, Sigma 50-500mm lens, 500mm focal length 1/320sec f6.3




14 comments:

John said...

Nice shots Mike! The Water Rail is normally so shy that you were lucky to see it out in the open like this!
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Montanagirl said...

Nice set of images, and I really like your Header.

Roy Norris said...

Great shots Mike and how lucky you are to see this elusive species.

Mike Randall Bird Photography said...

Thanks very much Adam, Montanagirl, John & Roy. Your comments are much appreciated. We are blessed in scarborough with these Rails showing like this.

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