bewick swan

This bird flew into Martin mere on Wednesday after a 2,500 mile flight and was still around yesterday among the many Whooper that have arrived as well. Plenty of migrants arriving everyday at the moment so well worth a visit.

Joined the wetlands trust today at Martin Mere, had a wander around, impressive place.

Bewick's Swan Posing for a portrait photo. Slimbridge is one of the top places in the UK for seeing these birds during the winter months.

A nice day down at Slimbridge to see the Starling roost yesterday.

is this phillip who has returned to the reserve after an 18 year holiday.

I recently got a new scope and have found carrying around scope, camera and everything else a bit hard going so now trying digiscoping. These two pictures are the first reasonable results....got a lot to learn!! LOL Criticism greatly received.

Not exactly synchronized this pair!

HUUUUGE crop this, I think the birds were in a different county to me. But I do like the colours from the low sun

Nice to put a name to a face. Pity its not the Bewick I sponsor.

The end of a good day at Slimbridge. A lovely sky but very low light levels made life very tricky. Not helped by me completely messing up the exposure. Thank you Photoshop!

My first day at Martinmere was wet, windy and overcast, but then the sun came out and I could crank down to ISO 400. Amazing how the drops of water "bead-up" without even wetting the plumage of this Bewick Swan. http://homepage.swissonline.ch/ken.billington/mybirds.htm

I dont think I have ever seen a juvenile Bewick swan up close before and Iwas amazed at the red colour on its beak.

An adult Bewick swan coming into roost.

Late afternoon and the Bewick swans started to fly back in from the outlying fields. Im not sure which was more numerous the swans or the number of people stood their lens in hand ;) Not my best shot of the day but I love the adult juvenile composition.

A very swan we were very pleased to see ... at Hornsea again.