Martin Mere

In between surveys today I called in at Martin Mere. It was a bit quiet and the highlight was this spectacular male Ruff in breeding plumage. Other birds seen included about 35 Avocets and a Raven.


These are more digiscoped photos. This bird was on the far side of Sunley's Marsh (100m distant?). The photos were taken through the telescope at 60x magnification, just by holding the camera up to the eyepiece. The light was poor, and I don't have either the correct type of camera or an adaptor for holding everything steady, so I'm quite pleased with  the results, even though they are obviously not going to win any awards!