Flying Visit

Campoverde - 14.05.2023

It's a flying visit over to the Costa and the question is should I take the camera gear, well I did, but only the compact 100-500mm with the intension of just a couple of trips out targeting two species, Sand Martin and hopefully down on the salinas...Little Tern.

I'm very fortunate to have two Sand Martin colonies literally 500m from the accommodation so its easy photography, you just sit in the car and shoot. A quick reci around mid-day and it's all action, the colony is all action with birds on the rock face and young poking heads out of holes, so a visit later in the afternoon is the plan. I'm back around 5.0pm but now it's all quiet, I wait an hour still no action so that's it and I pack up.

It's now the following morning with blue sky and sun the rock face shinning white in the sunlight no good to get an image, I need a plan B and it's using the shade of a tree and focus just on a small area of the colony that's in shade. 

Now an hour later and I've racked up 1,200 on the card, some good, some not so good, now it's the edit. I like editing, the expectation of what you might have captured, finger crossed.

Sand Martin