Recent Bird Photos

I shot these over the last couple of days down at Balmacara Bay and Kirkton Bay.  The gulls, curlew and ringed plover are not great but I like the eiders and the skylark.  They were all shot on my Canon EOS 500D with the Sigma 150-500 lens at full zoom.  I have cropped all of them to varying degrees and the ones of on the water were taken at a pretty high ISO so a little noise reduction was required but it allowed me to get a fast shutter speed of 1/1000 sec; hence the best shot I think of the eider flapping its wings is stopped pretty sharply.