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9th August 2016

We took the boys up to the RSPB nature reserve at The Loch of Strathbeg on Sunday for a couple of hours.

I didn't get many decent photos, as most of the birds were too far away for my 55-200mm lens to get any decent photos.

Here are a few of the better photos, featuring either the landscape or the local horses.

Firstly a simple landscape, the header photo at the top of the page.
The Loch of Strathbeg nature reserve is a very flat area centred on the Loch itself. It is a beautiful area, however there are not many outstanding features, which makes landscape photography a challenge. The only real feature of interest to a landscape photographer is the 230 year old wind pump tower.


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Some of the horses that were roaming around did put on a show for us!
As I said earlier, the bird photos were a little disappointing.

I did catch a few shots of a lone Egret. But they were at such a great distance that I really am only showing them as proof that we saw them rather than as examples of photography.
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Moving on to the Egret. This first one shows the kind of distance that the bird was from our hide.
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These two photos are cropped from much more distant shots...
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As you can see, even heavily cropped, the bird is very small in the images. If i am going to develop my wildlife photography I will clearly need to get a longer lens.
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Finally a very rough little animation that Google backup automatically generated from several photos of the Egret moving around the wetland.