Photos from the Wigeon Hide at Montrose Basin. The good (reasonable) the bad (yep) and the ugly (the Fieldfare photo).
Just as I got near the hide a Peregrine flushed everything and not long after a female Sparrowhawk took a Redshank. The Sparrowhawk came along the ditch, over the bank and went fast and low over the saltmarsh, surprising the Redshanks below the marsh edge. It returned to tree at the hide then flew along to its plucking post, the rest is in the video.
All photos and video from my P1000, the only solution I have for photography at these distances, and it serves as a makeshift scope that takes photos and video. The problem is at extreme zoom, the slightest twitch or movement at my end causes a big movement or shake. I can only stop breathing so long, and sometimes I can see my heartbeat affecting the video! (I'm big hearted!)
These below are UHD at 30fps, so may not play immediately on a phone, but broadband should be fine.
Great Egret with flounder Sparrowhawk eating a Redshank Great Black-backed Gull
Sparrowhawk female, Wigeon Hide
Great White Egret
Five photos spliced in Microsoft ICE
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