Water Rail by Phil Gower
This week's winning shot of a very young Water Rail by Phil Gower is not something you see very often; capturing this youngster in full marching mode as it strides towards a wooden obstacle makes for a great image, and one that makes you smile as well.
With feet as big as its head it just seems to be saying "nothing is stopping me going in the direction I want to go".
Congratulations to Phil on his Photo of the Week; he used a 600mm lens shooting at 1/1000th second, f4 on ISO250.
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Other notable images
Eider, Warkworth Lane, Northumberland (Photo: Heiko Peters)
Short-eared Owl, Mull, Argyll (Photo: Rob Beddall)
Green Woodpecker, Elm, Cambridgeshire (Photo: Jane Rowe)
Common Tern, Preston, Lancashire (Photo: Martin Jump)
Manx Shearwater, at sea, Cornwall (Photo: Adam Scott Kennedy)
Whinchat, Elan Valley, Powys (Photo: Clive daelman)
Great Crested Grebe, undisclosed site, Staffordshire (Photo: Tony Kinder)
Purple Sandpiper, Filey, North Yorkshire (Photo: Mark Pearson)
Little Owl, undisclosed site, Clwyd (Photo: Paul Scoullar)
Yellowhammer, undisclosed site, Highland (Photo: Toby Houlton)
Greenfinch, Hayle, Cornwall (Photo: John Rowe)
