Wetlands Centre

[beano500]

Someone around these parts recently recommended the Wetlands Centre...

http://www.wwt.org.uk/visit/wetlandcentre/

...as worthy of a visit.

Managed to spend a few hours there yesterday.

(Had a hanky with me and some lemsip, but none of the inmates was sneezing or shivering too much - mind you with all that damp.....)

Anyway, I'd say it is well worth a visit as already mentioned. :yes:

Corny to go for the Mandarin I know but....

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..and lastly, "Making Waves"[pic]http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/beano1197/DSC_5838-01.jpg[/pic]

[beano500]

More heron:



and crop:

[superlightr]

Well, as everyone is out -

Some super pics there!

The movement in the duck waddling is good for me.

[Stevo6]

Very nice.

What camera/lens?

[_dobbo_]

Nice birds! I like "the waddler".

[beano500]

Stevo6 said:

Very nice. What camera/lens?

Ta!

Nikon D70, 180mm lens at F4 (well normally it is, hang on I'll just check...) ISO 400 yesterday for most of these...

[cvp]

Nice work. It really is a good location there in town. I managed an hour or so yesterday but the light was awful. It's alwyas a good spot for herons, usually 10 or so around the centre.

I managed to bag this one at the same place. First time I've ever seen one in the wild. It did give one of the ducks a massive shock



BTW did you look at the photographic gallery upstairs? Seems like Kensington Gardens is also a good wildlife spot for us London based wildlife photographers.

Cheers

Chris

[Bee_Jay]

cvp said:

Nice work. It really is a good location there in town. I managed an hour or so yesterday but the light was awful. It's alwyas a good spot for herons, usually 10 or so around the centre. I managed to bag this one at the same place. First time I've ever seen one in the wild. It did give one of the ducks a massive shock

What is it in that picture that would give a duck a shock????

[_dobbo_]

Bee_Jay said:

What is it in that picture that would give a duck a shock????

Took me a while to spot it too!

[Bee_Jay]

_dobbo_ said:

Bee_Jay said: What is it in that picture that would give a duck a shock???? Took me a while to spot it too!

I saw that originally - some kind of snake I assume, but very difficult to tell...

[beano500]

Looks a bit like a Lesser Spotted Colgate Snake....

[imperialism2024]

beano500 said:

More heron:

I think I just read a joke over in P&P about someone trying to inject one of those...

[cvp]

Bee_Jay said:

_dobbo_ said: Bee_Jay said: What is it in that picture that would give a duck a shock???? Took me a while to spot it too! I saw that originally - some kind of snake I assume, but very difficult to tell...

Grass snake swimming across a pond. Yes it's small I grant you, but only had a 300mm lens. No time to attach converter, just switch on, focus & meter and fire. It's a tiny part of the original frame hence why it is so grainy.

If you go from the head you can see the body of the snake going diagonally right across the frame.

Chris