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A good informative video, thank you.

I live in Australia, but I'm from Cumbria., but next time I visit I'd love to go to this hide. Great you have the same passion as your dad, did he get you into photography or the other way round.

Cracking video as always Dan, including your clear explanation of modes and settings. RSPB Ham Wall is one of my favourite locations in the UK, along with other sites on the Avalon Marshes, especially in spring or early summer. Mind you, the Starling murmuration in winter isn't bad either! Keep up the excellent work!

another awesome video Dan and some simply beautiful still shots in a word........BRILLIANT

Great blog, full of great information, and as usual amazing video/stills images....😊😊👊👍

Super stuff as ever Dan, great footage of the pair of Bitterns together & always good when you get to see your chosen subject in this case the Cranes. Like yourself, up until this experience for you; I’ve only had glimpses of them from afar; or seen them in flight a long way up. Super stuff, the advice re ‘walk around’ settings & your chosen shooting mode is great too. Like you, & many others I shoot pretty much the same way as you do, & I have quite a few custom functions set up to make changes quickly should I need to. Switching from servo mode to one shot AF for a bird in flight that then perches is really useful & I have assigned that to an easy access button that I don’t need to take my eye away from the viewfinder to press. Someone else has already mentioned it, but there’s a dust spot/smear on your sensor or lens that showed up on some of your video footage towards the end of this vlog. My tip for you: Your camera still has the wrong badge on it 😂 All the best mate! Keep on keeping on. Nick

another brilliant video Dan I really should get up there as i told u never seen a red squirrel

Your videos go from strength to strength! I particularly enjoy the ones from Ham Wall! Well done getting the bittern and crane!

19:10 Just ... wow. What a beautiful snap <3 I thought barn owls were very strictly "night sky" nocturnal, so this also fills me with a slight bit of hope of maybe seeing one in the wild someday.

Superb... for Kestrels and Buzzards, you could try Tom Robinson's (Wildlife Photography Hides) near Bourne in Lincolnshire... a similar standard of experience. Lovely pics Dan and Pops... cheers for sharing!

Is it possible for Pops to do a video on the Red Dot EE-1 or equivalent? I have never seen one of those before.

Great video Dan love the images 👍👍

Great tips Dan. Enjoyed the video.

Another superb video again Dan. Managed to see the Cranes earlier in the year and was fantastic to capture them. Two good sites to visit are RSPB Greylake and Catcott nature reserve, both on the Somerset levels and excellent for winter birds. Rob Arundell.

Great stuff again Dan as always. Always grateful to you for sharing your settings with us. Gives us something to experiment with at the side of our own. 😃👍

Good to hear how you take your shots , how about a video/explain about how you edit your work. Lightroom etc ? . It's always interesting knowing how others get there photography done.

always enjoyable!

Awesome video and a good understanding of the settings which a lot of beginners don't get the knowledge of ! For the weather forecast (which also we need), the best app I use is the one on the iPhone (And I believe the weather on the others is just as accurate).

Cracking video Dan 😊

Hello Dan, sorry bit late putting your video up been away. Martin

Another great video, Dan. Try over the road from Ham Wall I.e Shapwick - they have a few hides there. It’s one of my local reserves and a few weeks ago was in the Mere Heath hide and the Hobbies were flying across about 30m in front of the hide regularly.

Hello Dan, I am with you on people talking very loud in hides, I find school holiday (as you will know) can be the worst. I remember going to a small hide at Fountains Abbey, and one set of adult continually shouting at there(I think) children to be quiet, this making far more noice than the children, we end up just leaving, for a coffee and cake near by. Some great image once more. You are so right about modes especially in this mirrorless age. I shoot with the Z8 and Z9 they are amazing bits of kit but there are so many modes all of which have there place, but finding one to suite your own style can take time. You end up watching so many youtube video were photographers say one thing and other say something ells. I know you have to take the time to lean wat is best for your individual work flow. you know I do more writing comments now than I have ever written. But I do love your work.

Some great images. That is reserve I must visit. I shoot 95% of the time aperture priority with ISO minimum shutter speed, and auto ISO. The other 5% it will be full manual. I like using ISO minimum shutter speed, as the camera will then automatically increase shutter speed when ISO gets down to 100, rather than over exposing. My minimum shutter speed is usually 1/1000 for mammals, 1/2000 for larger birds or 1/4000 for small fast birds. I may occasionally risk going down to 1/500 if light is poor. Otherwise the camera will automatically slow shutter speed if ISO reaches 12,800 which I do find still fully usable with modern denoising software.

What a fabulous day out and the Bittern, pictures wow !!

Great shots of the Bittern in flight. That's not an easy bird to photograph. I had no idea there were Cranes in the wild in the UK. Good to see you knocking about in a t-shirt. Fingers crossed the weather stays like that. This time next week I'll be eating steak pudding, chips and mushy peas. 👍

Such a pleasure to travel with you Dan! Let us all know when BBC Springwatch tap you on the shoulder 😉

Hi Dan I was at hamwall about a month ago lovely site saw plenty of bitterns very helpful with camera settings thanks for the help .Are you going to the bird fair would be great to meet you Clive

Another great video mate.

Really enjoyed this return to Ham Wall (for obvious reasons!) - cracking explantions on the exposure triangle too. Smashing! 🙌🏼

Cracking foties and video Dan. Your presenting skills and editing of your videos has really come on leaps and bounds since the early days. One tiny point, those were greater reedmace and not bulrushes that the kingfisher was perched on. A common mistake that lots of people make. Keep up the good work. ❤❤❤❤

Another great video, excellent shots and clear explanations of your technique. Thank you 👍

Love those Bittern shots Dan, not been over to Ham Wall must give it a go. You should get yourself onto Exmoor..the reds are in velvet right now😉

Wonderful stuff Dan! I'm sure that you cleaned your sensor just after this adventure. I hate to get home to find out that I had that. Thanks for letting me tag along. Keep up the great work!

Fabulous video Dan enjoyed it so much 😊

I live in Poole but on the rare times i get to the levels i like to visit RSPB Greylakes,great by the way

There are so many wonderful places here on the Somerset Levels, other great reserves to visit are Greylake, Catcotrt Westhay. . I find the best opportunities are away from the reserves. I hear cranes from my village. During the winter when they come into roost I’ve seen as many as 72 fly in

I have never seen Cranes at Ham Wall but I have seen them in the surrounding fields. I find Slimbridge to be better for cranes.

A great video as usual Dan, nice Sunday night viewing, don’t know if you noticed but your sensor or lens needs a clean, there’s a mark showing up particularly in the sky in flight shots 👍📷🦅

Brilliant also brilliant information on your camera settings and the crane 👍🏻👍🏻

another great video Dan and im glad you mentioned shooting modes so right in what u said completely agree

Dan, thanks for the excellent vlog. Planning to visit London this October and hoping to shoot some London's wildlife. This video helped me a lot to plan out my visit. Thanks again.

Thanks for sharing another adventure! I really liked the high key photos of the egret. I pray that you Pops is recovering well!

On my bucket list, fantastic, informative and great to know I'll need an extra card lol. Topaz was the better by the way :)

lovely shorts video Dan really loving ur chnl

Another informative video with some lovely stills brilliant ive 4warded this to my twitter page again

Hi Dan, have followed you from early on, totally agree with your comments that most of the hides here at Steart are not generally conducive for photography, its only an hour or so away from me but generally the birds are usually so far away and not much better at high tide, its crying out for some scrapes in front of the hides not just for photographers but for everyone to enjoy the birds close up.

thanks Dan and pops amazing pictures as usual just wish could take pictures like that fantastic .

G'day Dan. I must have missed this one. It is interesting to see the difference between the quality and content of this one from two years ago and your current videos. Thanks to your videos, I'm less than two weeks away from heading to the UK and have quite a few spots earmarked to visit while I'm there Just keeping my fingers crossed for some decent weather. 👍

Hi Dan, great to see you out and about, looked hard going there for a while, with little going on. Much the same here unfortunately, especially on my favourite hide at St Ouens Pond as it is so overgrown at the moment. Fantastic photo of the white egret, in what can only be described as a bleached background, the bird looks fabulous. Thanks also for the camera set up detail, regarding exposure and aperture, that's so helpful. We don't see Avocets here in Jersey very often, but when we do they are a delight. Thanks Dan, look forward to the next one. Andy

How do you determine the EV setting?