Water Rails at Baffins Pond, Portsmouth (1 Viewer)

[Richard Ford]

Hello All

Anyone in Hants interested in photographing Water rail could do a lot worse than Baffins pond, Portsmouth at the mo, where two very confiding birds are present and viewable down to around two metres sometimes. The difficulty is getting a shot without wire or vegetation in the way, here is what I managed.

Here is a Digiscoped one

http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2761

This picture (the one with this post) was taken using the Nikon 3X Teleconvertor (that’s how close they were) and has been croped a bit to remove some wire.


ATB

Rich

 

[Richard Ford]

I have just uploaded another one here.

http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2780

I have changed my mind about this shot, which I now rather like, the obscuring vegetation sums up Water Rail for me.

This was taken with the Nikon 3X Tele-converter, with the camera at floor level and has been cropped a bit.


Rich