With photographers eager to see where their images ranked and non photographers looking forward to seeing some amazing images.
This year (2019) didn't disappoint. 16 photographers entered the array, more than we have had at anytime in the past.
Placements of the top 3 positions were gained by 14 of those photographers. This also being more
than before.
Over 320 images in total had been entered, not including the captioned category.
Now to be fair this is a photographic competition and not restricted purely to bird photography.
I realise we are essentially a bird club, but it is interesting to note that photographers are now also including many images outside the birding categories and into the non birding ones. In fact there is almost a 50/50 split between the 6 bird categories and the remaining 7 categories.
I think this is good news, making the possibility of having a different element taking the overall vote.
The most contested categories were, first Northant's Birds with 41 entries, as it should be. Other Invertebrates with 37 entries second and not unexpectedly third, Butterflies, Moths and Caterpillars with 34 entries.
So the bird images were fabulous but so were lots of other images, Bob's Frogs, jump to mind, Dave Thomas's Red-billed Oxpeckers, on an antelope, what a great perspective for animals in their environment, just to cite a couple, as there were many more worthy winners.
Out of 325 entries there are only 39 places up for grabs. So to get into these echelons you will have done pretty well. One cannot fail to notice though, the number of positions gained by Dave Jackson, maybe we should all take a leaf from his book.
I do hope everyone enjoyed the evening. I'm sorry if the images were skipped thro' a little quickly on the night. This was to ensue that the evening finished at a respectable time for all concerned.
I have the feeling that next year's competition will be even more exciting.
Cheerz Robin.
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