Lapwings on the Uplands & Moorlands

Yesterday I had a trip across the Yorkshire Moors,  to survey the upland and moorland birds.

As we have had a proper winter for a number of years, I was concerned what effect this has had on many nesting moorland birds.

I was really surprised to see good numbers of both Lapwing and Curlew.

When I say good numbers this was roughly twenty pairs of Lapwing and half a dozen pair of Curlew, in a twenty mile radius.

Not huge numbers, but nether the less a pleasing sight.

Most of the birds were to far away to photograph and were quite well camouflaged in the heather!

A number of shots that I managed!   Very much like hide and seek, just couldn't get close enough to get full body shots.

Hope you enjoy them!

 

Regards Buzzard

 

Nature Is Amazing - Let Us Keep It That Way

  • Unknown said:
    Others will have a setting which places more emphasis on the centre of the photo when evaluating the exposure. This is sometimes called centre weighted average metering.

    Thanks TJ.  I had no idea what the metering setting meant so I set it to "multiple" which is the whole of the screen. I have now changed it to "centre weighting" and will see what happens.

     

    Cheers, Linda.

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