As well as the Smew another red-head was frequenting the same patch of water. Just a shame the light was so poor.
10 Feb 2012
A date with a gorgeous red head......
Smew are generally a scarce bird in Cheshire and we normally only get the odd bird each winter. When news broke yesterday that a Redhead was on Tatton Mere I planned to try and get therre today. With no news forthcoming I picked up Groucho and we headed the short distnace down the back roads to Tatton Park where we the mere froze napart from one end. Despite searching in the bitterly cold wind and snow flurries we initially didn't spot it until it flew out of some juncus into the middle of the mere before coming back towards us and hauling out on the ice. Gorgeous!
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Nice Smew shots Phil. I saw one at Tatton Mere at the weekend but the light was dreadful for any decent shots.
I now see that your Smew was also at Tatton. Apologies. I need some better equipment.
Light was crap Adam. Was shooting at ISO 2000 F2.8 & shutter speed of 100 th second with grey skies and some rain.
Enjoy reading your blog, have just started to get involved in photography as an extra hobby so will hopefully pick up some tips from your site.
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