Rutland Visit - Part Two
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jazzy_daveOn Saturday we took a taxi towards Rutland Water for the Birdfair. Beforehand we had a full English breakfast with Lincolnshire sausages, well I did, as Mike does not like herby sausages.
It was a really hot and humid day over at the fair, and the marquees trapped the heat further, making it feel like you were sweating inside a sauna.. You were grateful for whatever little breezes that might have occurred. We was going to stay the six hours but could only manage four due to the heat.
Infact the coolest marquee was the one with all the optics in, and I presumed,it was due to the fact that the big companies such as Nikon, Zeiss, Swarovski, Leica, Wenger and Minox, had the expenditure to keep their employees cool. From that marquee you could look out acroos to Rutland Water and study the wildlife.
From one of the stands I purchased a book to obtain a free muslin bag. It was called “Tales Of A Tabloid Twitcher” by Stuart Winter (New Holland Publishers). I also picked up a T shirt for a quid as it was the last one on the Dutch Birding stand.
Other stands had second hand books and the other purchase I made was “Birdwatching In Kent” by Don Taylor (Meresborough Books).
Mike also bought a few books, a porcelain bird sculpture and an original wildlife painting. These paintings look so good that you would be mistaken for them as being phtographs.
My favourite was this one -
Back in Uppingham I went out again to take more photographs.These will be on part three.
It was a really hot and humid day over at the fair, and the marquees trapped the heat further, making it feel like you were sweating inside a sauna.. You were grateful for whatever little breezes that might have occurred. We was going to stay the six hours but could only manage four due to the heat.
Infact the coolest marquee was the one with all the optics in, and I presumed,it was due to the fact that the big companies such as Nikon, Zeiss, Swarovski, Leica, Wenger and Minox, had the expenditure to keep their employees cool. From that marquee you could look out acroos to Rutland Water and study the wildlife.
From one of the stands I purchased a book to obtain a free muslin bag. It was called “Tales Of A Tabloid Twitcher” by Stuart Winter (New Holland Publishers). I also picked up a T shirt for a quid as it was the last one on the Dutch Birding stand.
Other stands had second hand books and the other purchase I made was “Birdwatching In Kent” by Don Taylor (Meresborough Books).
Mike also bought a few books, a porcelain bird sculpture and an original wildlife painting. These paintings look so good that you would be mistaken for them as being phtographs.
My favourite was this one -
Back in Uppingham I went out again to take more photographs.These will be on part three.
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