Quick! Get my camera!: ducks

Saturday, 11 January 2014

Lotherton Birds

My final Lotherton Hall post, all about the birds! See my other posts about Lotherton Hall here:

So Lotherton Hall has it's own bird sanctuary, and myself and my girlfriend ventured in to see what snaps we could get! Having recently been to go and take photos of some swans and ducks, I knew it was going to be difficult, but when we got there we really had our work cut out.

We spent ages trying to get some close ups of the birds, with Hana doing her best to draw them in by shaking her scarf, which actually worked! We spent so long on the close ups of the heads of the ducks, and I took at least 20 photos per head! I think the fact that I love shooting in manual focus really was my enemy as trying to catch a moving bird is so difficult!

Anyway, here are the results from the day:

1. A ducks head, I just love the patterns on his neck

2. A beautifully coloured bird

3. Blurred flamingoes

4. A close up of the first duck. Sadly the fence was too small to fit my lense through so just ignore that!

5. Non-blurred flamingoes

6. The head of a Rhea. I love the blue eyes!

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Thursday, 12 December 2013

Lakeside snaps

As I have said in my last post 'Swanning about', I recently went to a place called Charnwood Water here in Loughborough. It was basically for me to get away from my uni work which was driving me mad and to finally get out to take some photos! When I got there, there were loads of birds which got most of my attention, however I did manage to take some snaps of other things too!

Here are some of the snaps I caught:

1. One of the reservoir's life rings.

2. A rusting padlock.

3. A bar stopping cars from accessing the paths.

4. Birds on a roof waiting for the big birds to finish eating.

5. A couple ducks tucked away in the reeds.