A lucky day.

I spent some time at a lower elevation on Thursday visiting a local pond near Brecon, there were some Wigeon just bobbing around and sleeping half the time but quite close to the shoreline. These are attractive ducks and because the water was calm and there was a chance of a shot I tucked myself in near some foliage and just waited. I was carrying my R5 with the Canon 100-500 f7.1 zoom with me, my go to walk around lens.
Closer they came until I could get a decent shot and I was quite pleased with getting a few shots out of the blue, this is the way it is sometimes.



Surprisingly when I looked up from the water I could now see a Common Buzzard on top of a small tree nearby – another unexpected shot, better and better.



However, the biggest surprise of all was awaiting me because I had ostensibly packed in by now and I was walking back to my vehicle when suddenly and I really mean suddenly, there was a Barn Owl immediately in front of me. It was gliding on flat wings fifteen yards away coming right for me.



I had hardly any time to react I just pointed the lens and shot a few frames, then it was all over and it disappeared over a hedge as quickly as it had appeared and I didn’t see it again.

What a surprise three images from nothing!

I contemplated buying a lottery ticket on the way home but that was probably pushing it.