When I first saw this picture on the Recent Sightings page I thought ‘That’s a contender for POTW.” Adrian Langdon, our reviewer this week had the same idea. Thanks Adrian for giving us your take on this weeks’ submissions and congratulations Steve for a capturing a great image.

‘The shorter day length and the cloudy skies don’t seem to have slowed down our hardy photographers as there were plenty of good images to choose from this past week.

A Great Egret was seen at Dozmary Pool on Bodmin Moor for a few days and was well portrayed by Linda Birtwhistle.

Sarah Talbot also did well with 2 images on the Monday, a fine picture of a Snow Bunting at NCI St.Ives and a Greenshank at Ryans Field.

Making a trio of lady photographers Lynn Colliver published a super Purple Sandpiper from “Purple Sand Central” at Battery Rocks Penzance.

In the middle of the week Steve Rogers produced a cracking photo of a Redshank in flight, super sharp, well exposed and with a nice reflection to boot!

Closer to my home Darren Rundle sent in a fine Buzzard picture from the Camel Trail.

Martin Webb had both a Great and a Little Egret at Marazion.

3 Grey Plover from Rupert Kirkwood was one of the few “multi bird” portraits and it had top quality.

The star of the show for Thursday made it to “Bird of the day” and that was a fine photo of a Cetti’s Warbler at St.Gothian NR by Mark James.

I did like Steven Wood’s 2 photos of a Whimbrel taken near Coverack, both showing the head pattern, so distinctive of these birds.

Long Rock Pool was the place that Simon Willson captured a fine photo of a Greater Scaup, not an easy place at which to photograph!

Vic Booth managed to take some good images at a feeder site in a private garden at Carbis Moor, near Roche with a Brambling taking pride of place alongside Siskins and Greenfinch.

To finish the week I was impressed with Jon Irvine’s shot of an Oystercatcher in the surf taken at Castle Beach Falmouth… the waves gave it that bit extra, a difficult exposure to make!

It was a tough decision this week with both the Cetti’s warbler and the Redshank vying for top spot.

This time I gave it to the Redshank by Steve Rogers as it had the edge on photo quality. I love the refection and the forethought to capture or process the image in portrait format.

Well done Steve and a close second to Mark James.’