Coal tit
A quick photo of a coal tit.
Firecrests on Mount Aenos, Kefalonia
More shots from Kefalonia. On a trip up Mount Aenos, I kept hearing a call in the trees that sounded familiar, but I just couldn’t work out what it was. Then this chap came down. A firecrest! Great to see and it/they posed for a few shots. Due to their constant movement and staying in…
Wood pigeon and gull in flight
A few shots from the start of January, on a sunny day in Raphael’s Park. The was not much around and sun was at an awkward angle so tried for some photos of common birds in flight. The woo pigeon came out ok, except for the background! I also tried a few of the black…
Turnstone feeding on mussel and stretching
I’ve been processing some of my backlog recently and I came across these photos of turnstones at Reculver in Kent. I managed to get it feeding on a mussel And stretching its wings.
Blue tit photographs
Found these in my editing backlog. Probably my best blue tit photos.
Oystercatcher hammers mussel video
While at Filey Brigg, I was lucky enough to get close to some oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus as they fed on some mussels. These particular oystercatchers were feeding by the ‘hammering’ method, which involves using their thickened beak to smash the shell of their prey to get to the edible insides. But not all oystercatcher feed…
Alien Species in Britain: Ruddy Shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea)
The Ruddy Shelduck originates from Southern Europe, North Africa and South and Central Asia (with some populations wintering in South East Asia). It is a large rusty orangey brown duck, 64cm in length and with a wingspan of 133cm. The male is slightly larger the female and weighs 1.4kg to her 1.2kg (Robinson, 2005). The…
Eider
Back in March I popped into Seahouses on the way back from Scotland, to photograph the resident eiders there and got my best shots yet of this species. A male posed nicely in the harbour. And a group came close outside the harbour wall. The female posed nicely too.
Magpie, Crow and Jay
A few shots from back in the summer. Some bread had been thrown on the floor and I noticed some magpies hanging around. So I settled down in the shade nearby and waited. Corvids are usually wary and there is no exception at Wat Tyler Park so I had to stick on the teleconvertor and/or…
Golden plover and dunlin in the snow
On saturday I popped up to Reculver in North Kent. it was high tide so I didn’t make it to the beach, but in the grass around the castle and car park there were a number of waders. Most of them turned out to be golden plovers. There was also a dunlin. Which poked its…