[wildone]

The Foreign Nationals are for things that have escaped into the British Countryside. However the idea was not that anybody should go out and deliberately take pictures of them but to have done so accidentally. The category was opened to allow them to be kept. You have submitted several Black Swans which have been accepted but the time has come to call a halt. May I suggest that until you get your better camera and lens back perhaps you would be as well to concentrate on Wildflowers. You will not have the same trouble with focusing at a distance with those. Many Wildflowers are coming into bloom now so you should be able to find plenty, also insects, snails and fungi.

wildone