Pensthorpe

During my week off, I took a trip to Pensthorpe Natural Park in Suffolk.  Pensthorpe offers both truly wild birds, viewable across a number of environments, and a captive collection.

Shooting captive animals feels a little like cheating, but it does allow sight of species or behaviour that otherwise would be difficult to witness without a lot of patience and field-craft.  I haven't seen bearded tits in the wild, let alone photographed them.  Similarly, I was watching a nesting captive avocet with one active young chick, when a second, still wet from the egg, came stumbling into view.