Camera practise and a few Patch year ticks!

Sunday was sunny and well below freezing, nice Winter weather. A few Med Gulls on the shore at Lepe, and fortunately I picked up two species that had been seen on-and-off recently: An Avocet at Stansore, and a Goshawk overhead.

Other additions for the year were Moorhen(!), Reed Bunting(!!), Jay (!!!), and Little Egret(!!!!). An extreme example why trying to see a maximum number of species in a day is always flawed with some common species just going AWOL.

I'm pretty sure Lepe has a 100 species day possible, with spring migrants, and a lot of luck! for now I'm on 86 species, which is good for my standards in January.

Photos with the P1000 are still coming along nicely. The digital zoom gets results, unlike the P900. There has definitely been a fix there! The Kestrel was a distant dot, and the still captured from video at 3000mm, plus 2.4 digital zoom on top of that!

The Stonechat was much closer, and handheld.