thanks. got there at 4;02 pm and left at 4;46 pm so I was there for almost an hour. by that point i eventualy got cold so I took a few more pictures and then left.
taking pictures was more diffucult to do cause of the strong wind but im used to it. I used to go to the cotswold hills with my camara sometimes cause it was a new place for me around that time and I would take pictures of the river Severn and any birds that fly over it.
i ususaly saw sheep and birds of prey like the buzzard. at another i saw a kestrel once. at another i saw buzzards almost every single time cause it was faceing the wind. at hares field and coaly peak in particular or painswick beacon it would be so windy it was like a hurracane
compared to when your on the ground so iv had lots of practice.
at epney it would blow my long lens hard enough it would blow it away from where its pointing even though my hand wasnt shaky and was completely still. the wind blew the long lens from the right rather than behind or in front.
i was taking pictures and i didnt know how long we were going to be there for so I had to sit down and put my long lens on the table to take pictures eventualy which was alot better for taking pictures and filming the birds. the bright white one with the long neck looking like a dinosaur walking about in the background behind the lapwings is a little egret which is a type of heron
the back dinosaur looking one is called a cormerant
thanks. I havnt either. I saw it out the window when someone just took me for a quick drive around Stroud one day.
I got taken for a drive again yesterday I didnt know where I wanted to go when I went out and we were only going to go for a drive.
we got there so we were only going to go for a short walk across the river severn but cause I hadnt been there before I went looking around and exsploreing and seeing if you can walk along actualy down there by it but there wasnt anywhere.
I was thinking of leaveing or something but then I saw some birds they were mainly black headed gulls in autumn and winter plummage then I saw some birds i havnt seen before and heard them aswell i imedietly recognised them when I saw them through my long lens on my camara.
the river wasnt far away only a foot away and its a natural river. the birds cause they were small did require a long lens and not a short one.
they were Lapwings. they gather in large flocks during winter and are very distinctive cause of strands of hair that stick up on there head and have black bibs on the chest amoung other id features. there call sounds like peewit so there call is also distinctive aswell. another name for them is peewit aswell cause of there distinctive call. and they are unlikely to be comfused with any other species. i havnt seen one in real life before so it was my first time seeing them. it was very cold and it was windy aswell but cause it was a new bird i sat on the bench at the inn which is right in front of the river severn outtside on the bank and took pictures of them. i did some filming aswell but to send a film i would have to send it as a gif. i also saw a cornmerant with the black headed gulls
