Avocet Pair

[Stan]

First day of the new season at Brownsea last Saturday, bitterly cold and no sign of the red squirrels but a fair flock of avocets on the lagoon

[Dawesy]

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Nice Stan

[Brian Sugden]

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Very nice Stan.

Brian

[ctrollen]

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Really nice, Stan. I've never managed to get a really good shot of avocets - whenever I've gone anywhere to see some, they've always been just a little too far away.

[Stan]

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thanks guys

I've never managed to get a really good shot of avocets - whenever I've gone anywhere to see some, they've always been just a little too far away.

Hundreds overwinter in Poole Harbour and a fair proportion make their way to the Brownsea lagoon to feed and often they are well close enough to get them a good size in the frame

[Trev B]

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Nice one Stan or two should I say. Thought you might have put up a few Peacock shots as well.

[Stan]

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Thought you might have put up a few Peacock shots as well.

too many to choose which to shoot

They were over the far side of the open field but as soon as they saw up go up into the woodland, over they came and before long there were around 20 of them but there were no red squirrels anyway

[Bill53]

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Nicely composed Stan.

Bill.

[pelliott1954]

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Well composed they look good like that, nice light too, been miserable up here

Paul

[Stan]

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Thanks Bill and Paul

[tesarver]

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Nicely done Stan

Tom

[Stan]

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Thanks for looking Tom

[tigerburnie]

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Nice shot, very rare up here only seen one in Scotland in the past 15 years, saw a few when in Norfolk though

[Stan]

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Thanks.

I have seena few at other places including Minsmere in Suffolk which is not too far from Norfolk but nowhere near as many as on Brownsea

[tigerburnie]

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My brother lived in Swanage for a while and though we visited, we never made it to Brownsea, drifted past it in a boat fishing a few times, is Whytch farm still working? I applied for a job there years ago, but ended up in Scotland instead.