Turnstones

I showed these Turnstone images at the Perranporth Camera Club last week.  The top image was taken three years ago at St Ives harbour and still remains one of my favourites.  The middle image was taken last month near St Michael's Mount and the bottom image last year.

Waders at Little London beach

Dunlin and Turnstone are common in Mount's Bay and the sheltered beach known as Little London, below the town of Marazion, is a good area to photo waders on the beach. For some reason, they allow reasonable approach here and seem unperturbed by human presence. The shots were all taken with the 600mm lens and 1.4x TC. Tripod mounted. Aperture F/6.7 ISO 400. Exposure 0.0 (which was too high) and corrected by minus one third in Photoshop. The images have been cropped 50%.

St Ives and Zennor

A day out in West Penwith was probably the warmest day of the year so far - 10 degrees in fact! It almost felt like Spring. Sadly, few birds were on offer though the mild climate compensated. Best image today goes to a Turnstone feeding in the harbour at St Ives whilst some rugged Cornish scenery provides a backdrop for a Hen Harrier at Zennor. A Black-headed Gull adds to the tranquility today.