Today just flew bye

As with all wildlife photography your chosen subject rarely performs as predicted or expected and today was a good example,  The Purple Heron at Sett bridge, Ruan Lanihorne has been foraging in an area of marsh grasses just above the bridge for the last two weeks,  I took Peter Tonkin along this morning feeling reasonable confident that he would have a good photo opportunity,  After about an hour and a half the heron flew down the Fal river from the north over the bridge and kept on heading south down the Widening estuary, Charming !!  but at least I got a flight shot out of our visit.

We decided to move on to Tehidy Country Park and try our luck with the Kingfisher which showed twice,  It flew straight through the car park pond and straight on to the golf coarse pond the first time  and stopped just long enough for peter to grab a couple of shots on the second and then flew off leaving me with just another flight shot

Later a Swan flew over looking to land on the main pond,   It banked around to do so and then as I was ready for a nice water landing it decided against it and flew back in the direction it had come from leaving me with.............!

A male chaffinch flew in looking for hand outs, It didn't like what was on offer and flew off  once again leaving me with just ..................!

One of the mature Moorhen was perched in a tree high above the waterline enjoying the warmth of the sun,  I moved in a little to improve composition but was still a good distance from it and you guessed it   The bird was away in a frenzied flurry of flapping wings never to be seen again,

I framed up on a couple of happy young mums walking their toddlers around the pond,  Decided against it and went home !!

Mount in the mist

I arrived at the deer fields of Longrock a little to early at 5.45,  It was not even dawn let alone sunrise but I could just make out the shape of a Roe deer within fifteen metres of my usual hedgerow shooting point so I decided to give it a go,  I selected manual focus { auto focus would not fix it } Set my aperture to f5.6,  Shutter speed to 1/13th and Auto ISO to a max of ISO6400 before moving into place,  I took my first shot as it was feeding,  The second shot below shows it raising it head to the sound of the first image and the third was a complete blur as it took off for cover, but I was pleased with the performance of my Nikon D4S in low light levels where I could only just make out the dark outline of the subject,

At sunrise I moved onto the sea front along the side of Marazion marsh where the early morning mist looked magical as it swirled around St Michael's Mount



On the marsh the young swan was vigorously testing it s wings

The Young Grey Heron was not to impressed and just yawned!

And the Rabbits were still having a head to head about starting a new litter so   Nothing new there then !