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Feeding a nest full of chicks is a lot of hard work, especially when the food is so small. This sedge warbler photographed at Pagham Harbour on the South Coast has a beak full of aphids.

Getting shots of these birds was a question of watching them until I could find one that regularly used an exposed perch and these were very difficult to find in the dense reedbeds.

It was nice to be able to get a shot that showed enough background without the reeds being too intrusive.

100-400 lens @ 400 mm

Iso 200

1/640

f5.6

sedge warbler