Back to the Stork

Very early on Wednesday morning, the 31st July, I went back for the Stork arriving there around 6pm, it took me until 6.40pm to reach the 3 people there and immediately I saw the fine immature Black Stork in a field beyond the dyke. It was sunny. The bird had been closer in the dyke but it was walking around in the field feeding. After about twenty minutes it flew away but towards the dyke further along. So I walked to the gate between the dykes denoting the start of the public footpath back to the farm. Amazingly the bir was barely twenty feet awat from by the dyke edge just the other side of the gate. I abandoned the Canon lens temporarily and armed with my much more portable Nikon 500mm lens I took pictures of the bird showing just the head and shoulders! The sun came out and briefly lit the bird nicely before it slowly walked back along the nearside of the dyke but away from us feeding as it walked. It then walked down to the far end of the dyke we had some great views albeit the sun had been enveloped by cloud.