Month: June 2025Page 1 of 2
Very hard to match yesterday’s photo, so I am easing off a bit with this Blackcap – photographed on the same walk in Wimbledon Common. Blackcaps typically hang…
Typically, to see – or rather to have a chance of seeing – a Kingfisher, we travel to WWT Arundel, which is a 1 h 40 m drive…
Second photo from the treasure trove is another bird that was hopping around in the grass – a Wheatear. Not the best quality photo – but it is…
Back to Robins on Thursday — this time, a juvenile one. When I first saw a bird looking like this, I thought it was a different species entirely…
I have accidentally found a treasure trove: a full day’s worth of unsorted photos from Le Mont-St-Michel. I will be sorting, editing, and publishing these over the next…
Today’s photo, even though a bit old—back from summer ’24 — is still of decent quality. Since then, I have changed the default aperture I shoot at, the…
This Dunnock seems to be tagged, though it was not photographed in an enclosure or anything like that — just outside, next to the educational pond at RSPB…
Such a relief to have lifted the self-imposed rule of only sharing birds we have not seen before! Today we had a lovely walk in Regent’s Park, and…
It is getting increasingly hard to stick to the rule of sharing only a new bird each day — one we have not seen before — and I…
Carrion Crow is not the most exciting bird, as we see them quite often, but this particular one was perched high up in a tree framed by green…
This loud bird — which you can listen to on xeno-canto — was singing in the bushes and then suddenly flew out and perched at a very tricky…
Some more water birds today — this time, a Tufted Duck. A group of five males were diving for food in one of the ponds at Wisley Gardens….
We visited RHS Wisley Gardens yesterday with the aim of getting some waterbird photos — and it was reasonably successful. First one out is this Greylag Goose, which…
A few years ago, when I had just started bird photography, we visited RSPB Rainham Marshes, which has a large Swift population. With so many flying chaotically around…
The interesting thing about this photo is that it looks like the top of the bird’s head is in shadow from some nearby leaves — but that’s actually…
From the very spot where I took this photo, I also spotted a Thrush (still trying to work out if it was a Mistle or a Song), a…
Continuing with the theme of improved-shot-thursday I’d like to present this Great Crested Parent carrying its chick on its back and relaxing in a small pond between the…
I’m going to shamelessly publish a few photos that some of you might have already seen on my Instagram. One of my all-time favourites is this peaceful pair…
Going even further back — to August 2023 — for an interesting bird we haven’t seen here yet. At the time, I had just started with bird photography…
We had a lovely outing yesterday at RSPB Farnham Heath, but I didn’t manage to get a single shot of a bird we haven’t had yet — and…
On most of our outings in Pagham Harbour we park first near the coastal part and walk around there, then drive back to the main car park and…
Every time we visit Pagham Harbour, we usually see plenty of Oystercatchers. However, as mentioned earlier, large parts of the reserve were cordoned off for ground-nesting birds, and…
We haven’t had a bird of prey for a little while, so time to fix that. Buzzards are very versatile hunters, which makes them one of the most…
Thursday is the day of the improved shot, and I think this one is a solid candidate. The previous version was already quite nice with a great backdrop, but it…