What do you do when it’s too wet for golf? – Go bird watching.

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I spent a couple of hours in the rain at Chew Valley Lake in North Somerset without taking a photo and was about to give up and go home when suddenly a Great White Egret flew right in front of me. Encouraged a stayed for a while longer and got some pleasing photographs. The rain stopped and the sun came out for a while. The GWE moved to the back of the lake and I experimented with a bit of digiscoping. I need to put some more effort in to this as I must say I get a better view through my telescope than I do looking through the camera lens.

Great white egret flying in

Bad hair day for the great white egret

Great white egret checking its hair

Great white egret fishing for his lunch

Close up of GWE

GWE and mute swan

Mute swans

Shelduck

Canada geese

Canada geese

These last two photos were my best efforts at digiscoping