Talon spotting

Having been a bit starved of quality time with the camera in recent weeks I reluctantly had to neglect parental duties this weekend to mend relations with the Canon 7D Mark II. As well as depriving me of the opportunity to watch Wareham Rangers U-13s concede eight and get dumped out of the Dorset Youth League Cup at the first time of asking, this required me to try photograph a variety of passerines and waders. Not easy when they were being terrorised by the following:

This Peregrine over Keyhaven lagoon flushed the waders half way to the Isle of Wight

Tune in to next post to see if I was able to photograph the Long-billed Dowitcher which was among them

This Sparrowhawk caught a thermal over a warm Middlebere on Saturday morning

It posed for pictures before having a tilt at one of the Chiffchaffs I was photographing

Kestrel at Keyhaven