Little Crake, Exminster Marshes

Today my dad and I travelled to Exminster Marshes RSPB, Devon for the superb male Little Crake which had been showing down to 20ft but we had heard that this bird was extremely difficult to photograph despite its close proximity.


We arrived on site at around half 11 to find the bird had just flown to ourside of the reeds which was unviewable however after 10 or so minutes the bird flew back across the ditch and continued to show well but the problem now was the reeds and the wind, just as u got the bird in focus a reed came into view and then it unfocused and it kept doing this repeatedly so only a few record shots were managed. We left at 3:00pm after it had disappeared 4 about 3 hrs.






record shot of the Male Little Crake at Exminster Marshes Devon.