This week has been very busy catching up on those essential things that need to be done following a rolex replica watches few days away. Not birding days, family days in Donegal where my wife hails from.

So photographs confined to people and landscapes - and I am pretty poor at both. Some have a natural eye for such things - I do not. Anyway, my big lenses were left at home so I took the 24-105 F4. The idea was to take the 5DMK3 but I did not want to take a flashgun so I took the 7DMK2 - and I must confess, extremely pleased with the results. Not up to the standard that some would achieve but good for me and that is what really counts.

Back to last Thursday and my afternoon out. I decided to go to Paxton Pits for the Nightingales. Is it early for them? I only counted three singing and not in areas where photography was possible so I drew a blank there. A Great Crested Grebe was bathing and practising it's rock and roll dance

and on the way back to the car, I noticed a pair of Long-tailed Tits scurrying around for food for their young.

Don't ask about the bee getting in the picture - one frame it was there, the next gone so it must omega replica have just wanted to get in on the act!!!

I heard on the grapevine that there was some action at nearby Grafham Water so I drove there to see. Down by the harbour, there were loads of Terns and Gulls feeding on the flies but far out. A Common Tern came in close.

and there was some on the booms but they are coated in guano so not photogenic perches. However, there were some Black Terns around - the first ones I have seen in summer plumage so I could not resist them on the booms although very flighty so only distant shots

Taken with the 500 lens, 2x converter and the 7DMK2 and a 100% crop - not bad for record shots.

There were a couple of Little Gulls feeding off the harbour with the Black-headed Gulls but I failed to find them in the viewfinder and had to settle for this opportunist shot of a Black-headed Gull just about to catch a fly.

It was now 7.25pm and the car park closed at 7.30 so I had to make a quick escape to avoid a night in the car park.