A Question of Trust

Evening all.

One of the problems of having a digital camera with a big lens on it when taking wildlife photos is that people automatically assume you know what you are doing!

Take yesterdays blip for example, it was to have been a picture of some birds diving into the estuary and catcing little silvery fish...ages i'd spent taking the shots, and they were quite good too, until a lady (who had made the mis-assumption that i was a local wildlife expert engaged me in conversation...)

she asked me what the bird species was, what type of bird, why they were diving from a shallow height rather than the 20ft plus dives of the day before, and i didn't have the heart to disappoint her........

She left happy, full of new knowledge,

she now knew that the birds were called 'Dippers'.

That they were the larger male variety, known as 'Big Dippers'

and that theywere shallow divers or deep divers dependent on the flow of the current and the grouping of the fish...

Suitably embarrassed by this i vacated the scene and posted a different picture altogether yesterday, one of the Farne Island Hoppers in full flow..

but today i'm on safer ground, i can positively identify the bird in tonights blip, i see them regularly, and can give you chapter and verse about their habits and life style and ecology, in short if i see this lady again she can trust that my information is clear, accurate and correct in every detail...

night all,

Oh sorry, in case you don't know its a Turkey Vulture!!!!

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