Curlew

It must be ages since I  last managed to get a decent shutoff a curlew. I decided to take Zoe down the the sea wall this afternoon while Margaret was taking Megan for a longer walk and thought I would try and capture some beach birds before the light fell too drastically. There was a nice small cluster of gulls and oystercatchers around the river meanders on the beach so I was focusing on them when in suddenly realised that there was a curlew in the same area so the next ten minutes were spent trying to get a reasonable shot using low continuous focus to give me a reasonable choice of shots. It is always quite wearing having to look through a load of shot in post processing deleting loads of shots but nearly always worthwhile as you realise what are clearly the more successful shots.