Water Vole - wild

[Stan]

You can often see and shoot the water voles at the British Wildlife Centre but like with all wildlife, nothing beats the opportunity to shoot in the wild. At Arundel WWT we were very lucky to see 3 during the course of the morning but none out in the open enough for any shots. Later in the day i went back to one of the spots i had seen one and found him feeding just off the boardwalk but again behind the reeds. After watching for a little while, he came out in the open and started feeding very close, the exif shows a shooting distance of 2 metres and completely oblivious to me, he continued and at one point came closer than the minimum focus distance for the lens. An amazing experience

stan

1/160, f 5.6, ISO 400, 98mm

[tesarver]

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Stan

Tom

[mikep]

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Very good shot Stan - I've never seen one at Arundel!

Strange coincidence, but I'm probably going there tomorrow (Sunday)! Was he near the start or the middle of the board walk? I'll keep my eyes peeled!

Mike

[Stan]

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Cheers Tom and Mike

We had not intended to go to Arundel at all, but we had planned to take our youngest grandson to BWC for the day. Unfortunately he threw up in the car at Chichester and again just past Arundel, so rather than risking another 40 miles to BWC, decided to go to Arundel instead and so glad we did as it is my least favourite of the WWT sites

Strange coincidence, but I'm probably going there tomorrow (Sunday)

we are off to Barnes tomorrow

Was he near the start or the middle of the board walk? I'll keep my eyes peeled!

the first we saw was almost at the beginning of the boardwalk on the right hand side - only got a brief view of him. The one I shot was about 2/3 the way through at a point where there is a sort of a dog leg

good luck

Stan

[Alan Campbell]

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Great Wild image Stan .
Very sharp.

Alan

[Stan]

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Thanks Alan

Stan

[Bill53]

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What a cracking shot Stan, exceptional.

Bill.

[colin C]

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That is quite an exceptional shot Stan.

[ST-EOS]

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Excellent image Stan👍

[Stan]

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Thanks Bill Colin and Peter

Got to be my spot and shot of the year so far

Stan

[Dave s]

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Well done Stan fantastic image mate

[Alan_H]

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Very nice Stan

Alan

[DeeGee]

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[Stan]

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Thanks Dave, Alan and Di

Here is another, a very similar pose but a couple of foot away from the other one

Stan

[antoeknee]

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Great shot as often you don't get much of a view as they scurry off.