Simply a great place to be during this time of the year. Avocets, godwits, gulls and lots of squabbling – wish I lived closer!
Species: Avocet
On the Exe
Following on from the Avocets on the Exe post (It’s all a bit jumping back and forth I know) I followed them, and the flocks of black-tailed godwits onto the estuary as the tide receded.
The Exe Estuary and Mulled Wine!

More to come from Islay later but I managed a few of days down on the Exe estuary last week, again in search of getting some images of geese, dark-bellied brent this time from arctic Russia, in the context of the estuary. It was also an opportunity to witness a spectacle that has to be one of the finest in Britain, the population of avocets that flock in large numbers to this part of the world during the winter.
Image Manipulation in Bird Photography – How far can we go?
Surely a case of crossing the line with this construction of an egret and a frog by Bryan Patrick.