Oooh, You Little Bustard

It wasn't supposed to be a birdy day. I had things to do. Important things.


But birds have no respect for when they should show up, so what can you do?


Get caught in all the horrific traffic possible when you're on a very short time line, of course.


But, as you may surmise, I did get to Slimbridge before they stopped letting people in - albeit under armed guard escort - and after a bit of a wait the little darling stuck his head up a few times. Once he even wandered into a thinner bit and you could see his body! [gasp!]

And now..... Photos that take 'blob' to a whole new level! Oh yes. Oh really yes....

"It's near that post. The one by the log."

Ok. Apply zoom.

"Yeah, below that post"

Zoom more.

"Right. Now watch between that post and those thistles"

"It's showing!"

And that was showing well, folks.

It did look much better through a gbfo scope at 75x, I hasten to add. You could see all sorts of pretty bits.
Honestly, I'm amazed I caught it at all; I couldn't see it through the viewfinder so I had to wait for a shout of 'It's up' and just shoot a bunch of times until someone said it had stopped... I even hit it more than once;

It had moved right a bit.

Compare to the above.

Come on, that's brilliant even by my abysmal standards! :D
[If you really can't see it, I'll make with the red arrows...]


Let me end with something cute to heal your poor eyes. Taken through the window at sedgemoor services;

Awwwwwwwwww

Twitching again, woo.
First Lifer in I hate to think how long...

:D


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