Brodick Photo World

I said the other day that I seemed to having an obsession with cygnets, well maybe they are having an obsession with me. We took a trip to a local beauty spot at Sence Valley and sure enough, there they were. Mum and Dad proudly escorting their 5 offspring onto the lake. These were much more the size you might expect them to be at this time of the year, unlike the ones we saw at Attington Park the other week.


It was a pretty dull day but there were plenty of birds on the lake even if most of them were by bird watching standards fairly ordinary. Nevertheless, this mallard was pretty handsome.


A whole collection of them lined up for me.



Even though it was a dull day, the bright reflections off the water gave my camera some problems with auto focusing particularly with the darker birds. This was the best of several I took of the coots. I must try to get to grips with using the manual focus for some of these shots.


A somewhat more majestic creature in the shape of a heron paraded on the little island platform out on the lake. This was a fair distance from the shore and just about at the end of the useful range of the lens.