Easter Parade #1 Easter is approaching and the shops are full of eggs and endearingly fluffy yellow chicks. Of course,let's go …
Category: bird
Tree-creeping
Treecreepers can be very annoying when you want to get their photo. They have a nasty habit of creeping aroundlet's go …
And the UK number one is …
There is no doubt that the robin has always been the the number one bird at Christmas, adorning many cardslet's go …
Not a sparrow
I don’t know how many times I have seen a dunnock and thought it was a sparrow. They do looklet's go …
Young terns (and the cute baby animal syndrome)
Why do humans love baby animals? Why do we find them so cute – even sometimes, species that we regardlet's go …
Hammer Time
Male yellowhammer. spotted on Wednesday evening near Shell Bay caravan site, singing very loudly …
Blackbirds are not all black
That’s just the adult males. Females are speckled and brown, and juveniles are reddish brown. This young blackbird, which haslet's go …
The other auk
I’ve previously posted photos of the three commonest auks in our waters – puffins, razorbills and guillemots. There is anotherlet's go …
Tern, Tern, Tern
Terns are so agile and elegant in the air, twisting and turning (pun inevitable but I’m not proud of it).let's go …
Home making house martins
The house martins mostly just use mud. Theirs are the nests that you see under the eaves and in thelet's go …
Swallows in the mud
The swallows (and house martins) are back, and they are busy. Nest building for both has a ready source oflet's go …
The noisy whitethroat …
I’ve seen this bird a few times recently. I’m not sure if it has become more common, or whether Ilet's go …
Sparrows with attitude
You probably think they are cute. But when you take a closer look, they can be mean and ornery lookin’ critterslet's go …
Three photos, taken in less than a second
These three photos were taken in burst mode – several frames per second, 1/400 second exposures – remember that split-secondlet's go …
You looking at me?
“Who’s a pretty boy, then?” and probably countless other possible captions for this photo … This blue tit was fascinatedlet's go …
Newtonmore garden
There’s a place in Newtonmore where visitors are spoilt, and that includes the feathered ones being treated to lashings of nuts,let's go …
Finches in flight
Not the easiest photographs to take. I decided to take advantage of a bird feeder where the birds are slowinglet's go …
Siskin
Siskin nicely posing for the camera … one of many interesting garden visitors attracted by my hosts’ lavish avian lunchlet's go …
Startling Starling
I’m not sure why this starling has such a manic look – although they are quite manic birds, always squabblinglet's go …
Alca torda
Having featured puffins and guillemots, it would be churlish not to complete the trio of auks that nest on the Islelet's go …
Unbridled guillemot, and bridled …
Sticking with auks … “Bridled Guillemot : A form of the Guillemot Uria aalge with a white eye ring andlet's go …
A is for auk
First post. The auks are a family of “medium-sized seabirds with long, barrel-shaped bodies, short tails, very small wings andlet's go …