Two Female Eider Ducks with Male

Spent all morning analysing a 1946 black and white film made by the DEFA-Studios with Hildegard Knef, for a writing project. That has messed up my routine a bit - whoever has watched a film that early in the day! Anyway, I found myself looking at it from a photographer's viewpoint rather than a writer's, and realise how much the photographers had to use light and shadow and angles to get the right atmosphere and project the right understanding to the viewers. Wrote that up. Cancelled my trip to the Fitness Studio and made my way to the Wild Life Centre at the Basin. Heron flew by and hid himself behind a huge clump of gorse. No luck there:-( Captured a shot of Mrs Pheasant with her fifteen chicks! There were also hundreds of male eider ducks lying on the shore who, according to a Ranger, had done their job of impregnating the females and now their job was done. They could revert to their couch potato habits! All the Mrs Eiders were out on the water chaperoning their ducklings. I got a nice shot of one male Eider who had left the shore and accompanied two females out in the water. It was difficult to choose the one to use as a blip but decided on this one in the end.