Keddleston Hall (It’s a jolly ‘oliday with Maggie).
January 1, 2012 in Featured, Holiday and Trip Reports by PaulS
A Happy New Year to one and all!!
Met up with Maggie today over at Keddleston Hall. We’d been hoping to have a wander around the woods but as it poured it down we only managed an hour or so around the lake. The highlight was four beautiful Whooper Swans so well worth the trip.
Here’s a list of what was around.
Coot. Crow. Jackdaw. Pheasant. Canada goose. Greylag Goose. Mute Swan. Whooper Swan. Collared Dove. Chaffinch.Pied Wagtail. Black headed gull. Mallard. Tufted Duck. Pochard. Goosander. Shoveler. Buzzard. Kestrel. Grey Heron. Redwing. Starling. Blackbird. Wood Pigeon. Mandarin Duck.
A few shots to finish with.
Oh, and a tip from Maggie Poppins. A spoonful of sugar helps the media card download. Gawd bless ya Maggie Poppins!!
Nice shots
Herons look odd to me when perched in a tree for some reason
talking to a lad across road from me he goes spare time game keeping down there great place for wild life , theres a heronry down there also will get some info from him, on whats about
mick
Fantastic photo’s do you mind me asking what camera and lens these were taken with thank you.
I don’t mind at all Vicky but I’m not going to tell you!!
Only joking
They were taken with a Nikon D7000 and a Nikon 500mm F4VR lens. Both ably supported by a Gitzo tripod and Wimberley head. If you’re interested they were taken using aperture priority, ISO 400, F8. They were spot metered and an exposure compensation of -0.3ev was used. If you want any more info on the above please don’t hesitate to ask and thanks for taking the time to view the post.
Paul