The blue sky didn’t last for long before a bank of cloud rolled in. I wanted to make an image with a graphic quality to it here, utilising the dark rocks and the silhouette of part of Burry Holm as some foreground interest, but in the above image it is a bit stuck in the middle of where I wanted to be; it is neither graphic enough, with too much detail in the foreground and not enough detail for a regular image. This image may work with further adjustments in post processing, but then does the image actually justify the extra work? Probably not.
While at Broughton Burrows, the crows started to gather before their night time roost, and it was amazing to watch the swirling motions of the birds as they drifted over the dunes as they gathered. I attempted some video of the gathering, but as they drifted backwards and forwards over the dunes, it was difficult to keep up with them. I managed a few still frames, and this image gave the most pleasing arrangement of the birds. I always find that with flock images you have to take quite a few images to give you a better chance of getting a pleasing distribution of birds in the frame. It is impossible to get it right in one frame only.
