My next excursion was a Liz & Sande trip to
Portsmouth-Southsea-Eastney on the second weekend in June. My camera
caught 2-3 model birds as well as real ones on this trip - the first
of which was this giant seagull. We then found a cormorant sitting
really near to us - with a couple of pigeons on the other side of the
water inlet.
We
then crept up closer still - it didn't move - just looked at us and
let us pass. As Liz said, it was probably the closest we would ever
get to a live cormorant in this country! Of course, when it flew
across, I had to take the photographs of a pigeon also...
One
last snap of the cormorant...
Our
original intention when we had set out from home had been to pop
along to a garden festival. We were hoping for a roundabout to get a
turning off into the other direction - but they had turn offs only on our
side, which we missed til we had passed them, so on we went
re-planning the day's excursion til our arrival in Portsmouth. From
the photography opportunities alone it was perhaps a favorable
misfortune and we both enjoyed our day trip anyway.
One
last shot of a pair of pigeons completes today's post - but not our
trip - I still have 2-3 more snaps to share from Portsmouth.
Holy Toledo, that picture of the Round Tower is gigantic.
ReplyDeleteThat cormorant is pretty big, too.
lol - i managed to publish/save before the last photo could resize itself to regular sized!!!!
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