Spoonbill at Ryan's field this morning

A maturing Spoonbill flew in to one of the Islands in Ryan's field as I walked along the Hayle causeway just after sunrise this AM and it was nicely backlit by the rising sun,  It entered the shallow water of the lagoon as I watched its skilful use of its Spoon bill which looks quite clumsy and cumbersome when viewed front on but becomes a finely tuned instrument for fishing when studied from the side to create some interesting angles for portrait images,  Its perhaps interesting to watch the fishing action which is conducted side to side  which would tend to imply that any potential prey would see very little of the bill heading in its direction !!  A very clever natural design .   Other subject on the water line included many Lapwing,  A Grey wagtails and three or four Black tailed Godwits all of which are posted below.