Stodmarsh Nature Reserve in Kent
a Male Marsh Harrier searching for breakfast. After two years of lockdown, the time has come to start our travels again. We have not visited the UK since March in 2020, so the opportunity to visit one of my favourite Nature Reserves was always going to be high on my itinery. The forecast was good, but cold for the 24th March, so at 05.00 and at a temperature of just 1 degree, I arrived at Stodmarsh just before sunrise. It was a 'still' day with barely a breath of wind and all that could be heard, was the 'murmering' of water fowl awakening from their slumber. A cold and misty start to the day as the sun came up, with frost still on the ground. As the sun started to rise, so did some of the birds and whilst there was not really enough light for photographing birds in flight, I stopped down the camera to f4 and kept the shutter speed as low as possible. These images are therefore rather 'noisy', but at least capture the day as it unfolded and the light slowly