Another early start at Spurn yesterday and another photographic session with one of the Spurn lockdown auction winners. It was a nice clear morning and the sun was right for photography early in the morning. The birds didn’t really perform though as a fresh easterly promised much and delivered very little.
The waders at high tide were quite good especially when they were being scared witless by a peregrine falcon causing huge swirls of birds heading in all directions.
I stayed at the north end of the breach, got low down so my outline wasnt on the skyline and waited. It didn’t take long before a curlew landed straight in front of me and the waders were whizzing about over the river and sea.
The peregrine flew by quite distantly after it had its breakfast and gannets were on the move out of the Humber. A nice fly by from two pink footed geese and a brent goose added some variation as did a delicate black-headed gull posing in soft morning light.
I had deliberately set the ISO at a high number in the hope of catching some flight shots in the early morning light and it worked to a degree. The higher the iso number the lower the quality of the shots-some of the early ones were taken at ISO 5000 but the Nikon D810 is capable of performing at low light levels and it produced some decent results.
Hopefully there will be an opportunity to photograph some migrants in the enxt few weeks as we head into October-the best month for Autumn rarities at Spurn.
