GREAT NORTHERN DIVER & CORMORANT 23/10/2013.

Just a quick post tonight with a couple of shots of the Summer Plumage Great Northern Diver which has been on Longrock Pool at Marazion for the last couple of days.
The Cormorant was taken on Hayle Estuary on the way back home. 

GREAT NORTHERN DIVER.

GREAT NORTHERN DIVER.

CORMORANT.

PENDEEN & HAYLE ESTUARY 08/10/2013

Spent a couple of hours at Pendeen & Hayle Estuary yesterday morning, the aim at Pendeen was to try and get some closer images of the Durian Shrike that had been thee for a few days.
Sad to say it did not show, so after an hour I went down towards Penberth Cove for the Snow Bunting and must say it was a very obliging bird, as part of the time it was walking around my feet.
Then the weather began to close in so made my way back to Hayle Estuary to see if the Black-Winged Stilt was showing, as it happened it was right up by the bridge on the Causeway making for some decent shots even though the weather was very dull and the lighting flat.
So a few images below of the mornings effort which was very enjoyable.

BLACK-WINGED STILT.

BLACK-WINGED STILT.

SNOW BUNTING.

SNOW BUNTING.

BAR-TAILED GODWIT.

OSPREY AT LAST + CLOUDED YELLOW

The title say's it all, after chasing all the ospreys that have been sighted this Autumn only to be told I'd missed them by 15 or 20 minutes.
Anyway I arrived at Carnsew Pool on the Hayle Estuary just after 07.30 this morning looking for this Osprey for the third time only to be told it was seen flying out to sea 10 mins earlier.
Well to tell you the truth I almost walked back to the car and say blow it (in so many words). but I decided to walk around the pool to a point where I could watch both the Estuary and the Pool.
Well after about 50 mins all the Gulls on the mudflats went up and I knew something was around, after a couple of minutes I spotted my quarry.The Osprey came gliding along the Estuary and I got off a good number of shots. I can tell you I was over the moon at this encounter as I like Raptors and my only Osprey shots before were a couple of rubbish record ones, so this was great.
So below are a couple of the images.
Also on the way back to the car Brian spotted a Clouded Yellow Butterfly, must be one of the last immigrants from mainland Europe, so all in all the morning went from despair to euphoria.

OSPREY.

OSPREY.

CLOUDED YELLOW.

BLACK-WINGED STILT 30/09/2013

OH Boy! What a wet,windy, soggy, foggy week we have had, it has really let us know that Summer is over.Needless to say it has not given me much chance to get the camera out, but on a brighter note I did manage to catch up with the Black-Winged Stilt on Hayle Estuary yesterday morning, and managed to get a few images.
They are not the best and I can only say they are record shots, but thought I would share them with you anyway. I had to put the waterproof cover over the camera and lens because of the rain and the very dull conditions, also had to crop them quite heavily and use very high ISO settings.
Still we have to make the best nature throws at us.
The other images were taken in the garden at the beginning of last week during the last of the good weather. 

BLACK-WINGED STILT.

BLACK-WINGED STILT.

BLACK-WINGED STILT.

FLESH FLY.

PLUME MOTH.

WILD HONEYSUCKLE.