I was talking to a friend and bemoaning the lack of decent photos of the Short-eared Owls from my last visit. He had also been proviously and managed some decent shots but from a different side of the fen so I arranged to meet him there to see if that would improve matters. This time, I would take the 500 f4 prime lens and converters to see if I could manage better images then previously.

Certainly, the scrum of photographers were still on the other side with just the occasional ones near us. The Owls started to perform, mainly still distant but later on, came closer. Still needed a 2x converter on the 500 lens though and often at ISO 8000 but the Canon R5 and modern editing software (Topaz) can cope with that.

and finally a shot that I was really pleased with although not as close as I would have liked (photographers are rarely satisfied- can always do better).

Still I managed to take photos that improved the quality of my library - SUCCESS!!!