Many hours were spent in the hides at Leighton Moss and although we were not, on this occasion, fortunate to get any glimpse of the Bitterns, we were rewarded with a couple of brief, but really good, sightings of the small herd of Red Deer that live on the reserve. They are often deep in the reeds but at times break into the open areas to graze.
They are generally best seen at dawn or dusk and it was late afternoon when a small party broke the reeds and showed well for about a quarter of an hour. There was another group that stayed a few yards into the reeds all the time we were in the Greisdale hide, they were not too deep in and provided some interesting images.
Technical Information:
Image 1: ISO 800 – 1/320 sec. – f 5.6 – 500mm + 1.4 converter
Image 2: ISO 800 – 1/320 sec. – f 5.6 – 500mm + 1.4 converter
Image 3: ISO 800 – 1/320 sec. – f 5.6 – 500mm + 1.4 converter
Image 4: ISO 800 – 1/400 sec. – f 5.6 – 500mm + 1.4 converter
Image 5: ISO 500 – 1/500 sec. – f 5.6 – 500mm + 1.4 converter