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Jo Humberstone 0 Comments

For those who like wildlife photography, Cleethorpes Country Park has a very colourful newcomer, a Mandarin duck.

I struggled to get an image yesterday as it was so far away (this is massive crop) but I understand it comes quite close sometimes. 

It should be somewhere near the red arrow.

Mandarin Duck by Colin Smale
Cleethorpes Country Park, Overhead view

Update from our Nature Guru, Colin Smale ~ Mandarin is still there in the same place.  Sometimes comes too close to get it all in the viewfinder so if you have only got a short zoom lens you will be fine.  

Just go to the red arrow, sit at the picnic table there and watch for the 4-5 mallard ducks there, the mandarin will be with them because he has taken a shine to one of the mallard females. (Well there’s no female mandarin duck about, what can I say!) 

Mandarin Duck by Colin Smale.

Jo Humberstone

I've always had an interest in photography, starting too many years ago than I care to remember. I have a variety of cameras in working order ~ pinhole, medium format, 35mm and digital. With working full time, there never seems to be enough free time to properly indulge in using them. 10 years or so ago, I took my first (and only!) "A" level ~ in photography. I was the only one on the course to only do darkroom work throughout. My own preferences lie with film and alternative processes ~ Digital is fine for most things, but for me it hasn't got as much "soul"! I enjoy sloshing around with various chemicals and I enjoy the unpredictability of some of the results. Having said that, I am happy to rise to the challenge of digital work and manipulating images for competitions and suchlike when time permits.

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