I was out with Sea Trust yesterday on a dolphin survey trip to the Smalls. The weather was, at last, fine but with a fairly heavy residual swell from the last low of a couple of days ago. It made the photography pretty difficult early on, but as we passed the Smalls lighthouse it quietened down and conditions improved.

On the other end of the lens spectrum from the 500mm telephotos and converters that I use most of the time, are the macro lenses, enabling close up work of the smaller animals found around us.

During the last couple of days I’ve tried to get as close as I can to some of the more common birds that visit the feeding station.

A very ‘flitty’ Chiffchaff spent a good deal of this afternoon around the main hide at Home Farm.

During our recent holiday to Cheddar we cycled over to Wells and spent an enjoyable day in and around the Cathedral.