It was a beautiful, crisp sunny morning with not a breath of wind and it
seemed perfect for watching small warblers, so where else to go than back to
Martin Mere? Sure enough, the yellow-browed warbler performed really well, occasionally
coming as close as 2m away, though that didn't mean that it was easy to
photograph!
It's a very flitty bird, constantly on the move and there are a million
branches in the way to focus on and for me it's just click and hope! Even so these are probably the best yellow-browed warbler photos that I have ever taken, which is not saying much.
Meanwhile the Siberian chiffchaffs performed brilliantly, with two birds more or less constantly alongside me but largely ignored as I tried to photograph the yellow-browed warbler.
Some people may think that spending time at the sewage works is not how they want to spend their visit to Martin Mere, which is fair enough, each to their own, but it's a fabulous experience to be surrounded by these cracking little warblers on a bright sunny day such as today.
This Bewick's swan (on the left) was with whoopers off Curlew lane just
outside Martin Mere.
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