Dave Stone, a well known local birder and blogger told me that there had been another male Lesser Whitethroat showing really well on Exminster Marsh, that's two or three now. He also had a little problem with his camera so I made arrangements to meet him at the RSPB Car Park this morning to help him with the camera and also for him to direct me to the area that he had seen the Lesser Whitethroat previously. We had only been there a minute or two when we heard the bird singing and showing very well. I took lots of pictures, the light was awful and we had to use all the tricks that we know to try and get some kind of image worth keeping. It was raining and the bird's plumage was wet as you can see in the photograph. I have "fiddled" with the image in "Photoshop" to turn the saved photograph in to an image. I adjusted the exposure and contrast to make the picture "pop out" from the background. Then I put a background on it sharpened the image and increased the saturation. Quite pleased with the results.
The bird was singing loudly but also engaged in a tussle with a Common Whitethroat which it wanted to evict from it's claimed territory.
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