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In May 2020 I had just got the LRPS, and it was becoming evident that the lockdown was going to be more of a marathon than a sprint, so I needed to find a photography project. One of the advantages of the weird time during Covid was that it was so quiet, very little road noise from cars and no aircraft criss-crossing the sky combined with the beautiful weather meant being able to enjoy the garden and appreciate the variety of birds visiting. This gave me an idea for a lockdown project to try to photograph
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Most people like the idea of good weather for a day out, but photographers aren’t like most people! Bad weather can give a totally different feel to what would normally be just another image of a moorhen, and we certainly had plenty of bad weather when we arrived at the hide just before Christmas. Even though it was midday the light was awful with torrential rain, luckily the wildlife didn’t seem to care and just carried on as normal, (and we were nice and dry in the hide so we didn’t mind either!) The ma