Close up with a Great Northern Diver
As I drive past I can see there’s a Great Northern Diver in Pierowall Bay. It’s unusually close to the shore. That doesn’t seem right. I park the car and walk along the road with my camera and telephoto lens, seeing if I can spot it. It’s now even closer to the shore and I watch it as it clambers up the beach. It must be ill, I think, as I approach it. It would never come ashore here unless it was sick or completely exhausted.
I approach it as it bobs up and down in the shallows. Isn’t it stunning?
This image is the full-frame:
I’m lying down in the wet, neck cricked at an unreasonable angle, attempting not to agitate it.
This image is a cropped part of the image:
I’m the reflection in its eye of the lump to the right of its pupil.
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