30 October 2024 - Hollingworth Lake

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3 Goldeneye

I'd walked almost all the way round this morning in very dull conditions without anything worth reporting, when a message came through from Andrew on the group chat that there was a Goldeneye, probably 3 at the Lake.  As I scanned across from the far side, I could indeed see three distant birds, which on closer examination were Goldeneye. They were so distant that they were just specks in the camera, but when I got closer to the Beach Hotel, I spotted them in flight, and they circled around a couple of times before disappearing, so I managed to get some not-brilliant flight shots.

Goldeneye , 1/640 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 500

Goldeneye, 1/500 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 400 (view full size image)