I wasn’t as interested in the Ducks as I was last time and I was with my Mum and Dad and half sisster. She is much much older than me she came over all the way from Dorset to meet us at Slimbridge they were the same ones I met up with at pooll and went to brown sea island with last year. Though my half sisster isn’t interested in Wildlife her daughter likes ducks and moorhens and coots and she likes feeding them and there are other animals for her to see aswell like otters. her husband isn’t interested in Wildlife but wanted to see the ducks with her daughter he has a Nikon camara and took pictures of the things that interest him but he mainly brought it cause her daughter wanted to take photos with his camara sometimes. I mainly had to do what they all wanted to do as well and they didn’t want to go back to hides they already been to so if I missed anything that was that For me I was more interested in the hides than the waterfowl collections and I havnt seen the otters there for a long time
I did almost go to Stratford park instead cause I went off slimbridge after I found out all the ducks are collections and the ones not in hides and wanted to go somewhere else but I went anyway and I went cause of the bird hides
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WendyBartter said:The Avocets & Otters were good to see Zo, pics much clearer with your new camera, just a little dark!
Thanks. The ringed plover was one of my favourites cause I havnt had a chance to see a ringed plover somewhere before. I don’t usually get to see waders since the places I visit don’t usually have any and I havnt visited much of the hides at slimbridge . I visited the ones I havnt visited before when I went to slimbridge this time. Some have waders some don’t but I liked both.
I know slimbridge have had otters before but I didn’t know they had new arrivals until I went it was fun watching them
yes I struggled to get the right exposure with my photos sometimes it was cloudy then later sunny so I had to change the exsposure twice but it was hard to see through live view screen. I’m hoping to get a viewfinder for my camara though to make it easyer to see when it’s hard to see . I have found in spite of the ups and downs of not having a viewfinder for the camara itself I have found the photos are clearer aswell
we went to the observatory tower where you can see the birds and hilariously there was only cows the birds were on the complete opposite side of the observatory tower on the right completely out the way of the cows so I said interesting birds I havnt seen birds like that before I wonder how they got that big. Are they rare species or something and then my family member said ooh and developed 4legs like a mammal and I said yes. interesting.