Following Monday’s grab shot with my compact camera of the Little Egret, this morning for our pre-breakfast walk down to the Waveney I took my DSLR fitted with my most powerful lens – a 70-200mm mounted on a monopod just in case we did see it again:
We did see it, but it was very skittish – we couldn’t get as close as we did on Monday before it flew off. This is the best I could do with the maximum telephoto of my zoom lens and this is a crop of less than 1/10th of the whole image.
Any closer and it flew off around the trees and perched further away. Attempting to get closer and it flew away again. We decided to leave it and carry on with our walk along the river. This is a view looking back at the scene – the tiny white dot in the middle is the Egret:
You can see we don’t have a clear view – it is amongst a wooded area surrounding the fishing lakes. On the way back I had another attempt – this is the best I could do – another cropped shot take from a distance:
This is the clearest I could get, there are branches everywhere. Again it flew off going around the trees – I couldn’t get a clear shot. As it was so nervous, we called it a day and went home so as not to disturb it again.