It was a relatively quiet day bird wise when I visited, partly due to the work on the new sea defences. I was hoping to see some Bearded Tits, let alone photograph them, but no joy there. I did manage to grt some images of Sanderlings that were patrolling the shoreline, dodging waves as they rolled in. Once again, due to the presence of birdwatchers, they were relatively approachable which allowed some ground level images.
I like this slightly wider image?as it?shows the Sanderlings doing what they seem to do all the time i.e feeding. As the cloud cover that was present in the morning cleared it made it harder to find subjects in the best light as the light became quite contrasty. When the sun was directly behind you it allowed some graphic images to be made, but colour became even more important in the image for interest as sometime the flat lighting on a subject can be relatively boring.
The above image is an attempt to use the bright colours for interest, but I am not too sure on the dried mud in the foreground. The dried mud provided a better image further along the path as great cracks had appeared in it due to the?lagoon being for repairs and alterations to the sea defences.
A cloud covered the sun for a brief moment which reduced the contrast to a better level for this image. Stronger sunlight still worked well with the mud, but the lower contrast caused by the cloud?allowed more detail to be visible. I was relatively lucky with the next image, as I had stopped to have a drink when I noticed the back of a large animal moving through the reeds. Initially I couldn’t work out what it was, and as it had only been a very brief sighting and that other people looking in the same direction did not seem to be getting particularly excited by anything, I thought that I had been seeing things! I gets quite hot and heavy lugging large photographic lenses about, but after a few moments, a head appeared out of the reeds.
Although a bit of a long distance shot, this shows how well it was camouflaged in the reeds. A passer by who wanted to know what I was photographing informed me that they are culling the Muntjac deer quite heavily in Norfolk. I don’t know if this is true or not, but it seems that there have been a few accidents at night on the road running through the Thetford Forest with cars hitting deer crossing the road.
