Upupa epops

On 5th March Ceridwen told me that her 30x zoom is fantastic, especially for birds, and I told Ceridwen that I didn't think I was quick enough for birds. I had forgotten of course that when the Eurasian Hoopoe is in the neighbourhood, it has a habit of standing stock still in the middle of the road until you get really quite close. Having said that, this has got a lot of zoom on it, we were not as close as this may suggest :-)