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Another nice find from the outing in Morden Hall Park – this lovely juvenile Chiffchaff. It was not singing, so from a distance I thought it might be…
Running a bit low on high-quality photos in my back catalogue, I made a mid-week evening outing. The usual go-to place is Morden Hall Park – only about…
There was no opportunity for an outing this weekend, so I am going back to older photos. I have a few like this one – a snap of…
Yet another nice photo from our Hyde Park walk – this Grey Heron somehow reminds me of the heron from Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron.
A slightly older photo from the May heatwave, captured in Hyde Park at the Long Water corner nearest the Italian Gardens. The parent swan was diving for fresh…
This lovely Song Thrush was diving for caterpillars in the grass right next to the footpath. After zooming in on the photo, I think they are Peacock Butterfly…
Today is the 100th email, and how fitting it is that it’ it’s a Thursday – I can share yet another photo of my favourite bird…
I could hear this Magpie chick complaining to its parent from quite far away. Shortly after I took this photo – and after further complaining – the parent…
We noticed this Black Redstart while walking around Le Mont-St-Michel at low tide. There were a few around, and I took a number of shots – but like…
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…