Visit to Rainham Marshes 24 February

Lol @ the crow Bob!
You caught some lovely light showing the russets on several there, especially the Grebe and Mrs Shoveler, and super irridescence on the solo Lapwing, beautiful!
Looked another superb day out

Thanks for sharing :o)

That looked another good day out, and the crow with the golf ball, dropping it and then catching it, not only brilliant work by the crow, but yourself. Nice work.

I do enjoy seeing the Lapwing, such fabulous colours. Even your Shoveler and Shellduck are superb though when I think of what I see through the lens!!!! Of course my favourite has to be the Little Grebe, thanks Bob for putting such a lovely pic on. O'h, did the Marsh Harrier take any of the birds? I thought they were a little complacent sitting on the water while being patrolled by the swooping MH.

gaynorsl said:

I do enjoy seeing the Lapwing, such fabulous colours. Even your Shoveler and Shellduck are superb though when I think of what I see through the lens!!!! Of course my favourite has to be the Little Grebe, thanks Bob for putting such a lovely pic on. O'h, did the Marsh Harrier take any of the birds? I thought they were a little complacent sitting on the water while being patrolled by the swooping MH.

I didn't see the marsh harriers catch anything off the water though one dived. into the reeds and didn't come back out.

Lovely photos, Bob, and thanks for posting. And were you on an excursion or are you moving back to the south?! We are fans of Rainham Marshes, but we have not been there in far too long.

Unknown said:

Lovely photos, Bob, and thanks for posting. And were you on an excursion or are you moving back to the south?! We are fans of Rainham Marshes, but we have not been there in far too long.

An excursion - my wife has a sister lives not far from Gatwick and they were both going out to see her other sister in Fuerteventura for a week so it made sense for them to travel out together from the same airport so we chose Gatwick. I drove her down and on my return visit called at Rainham and then overnighted at Leiston and did Minsmere  then home. Was going ti do Bempton or somewhere the following day but the weather was against it. 

Apart from holidays I think we are "home" to stay

Shame about the weather preventing you from doing Bempton, Bob, but otherwise it sounds like you had a lovely trip. Hope your wife had a great time with her sisters.

What a fabulous set Bob, beautiful photos with such lovely colours, glad you had a nice trip. Hubby is a golfer, away to show him the Crow photos, you did well to capture those.