… it’s Heronymous ahead of Heronista by a length
View More And in the final furlong …Easter Parade
Easter Parade #1 Easter is approaching and the shops are full of eggs and endearingly fluffy yellow chicks. Of course, all young animals have that…
View More Easter ParadeTree-creeping
Treecreepers can be very annoying when you want to get their photo. They have a nasty habit of creeping around to the far side of…
View More Tree-creepingAnd the UK number one is …
There is no doubt that the robin has always been the the number one bird at Christmas, adorning many cards and trees. A couple of years…
View More And the UK number one is …Not a sparrow
I don’t know how many times I have seen a dunnock and thought it was a sparrow. They do look quite like sparrows – hence…
View More Not a sparrowYoung 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 regard as pests, dangerous or otherwise…
View More Young terns (and the cute baby animal syndrome)Hammer Time
Male yellowhammer. spotted on Wednesday evening near Shell Bay caravan site, singing very loudly …
View More Hammer TimeBlackbirds are not all black
That’s just the adult males. Females are speckled and brown, and juveniles are reddish brown. This young blackbird, which has been hanging around the West…
View More Blackbirds are not all blackThe other auk
I’ve previously posted photos of the three commonest auks in our waters – puffins, razorbills and guillemots. There is another – the black guillemot. This…
View More The other aukTern, Tern, Tern
Terns are so agile and elegant in the air, twisting and turning (pun inevitable but I’m not proud of it). The best photos are probably…
View More Tern, Tern, TernEiders in the harbour
Eider ducks and ducklings in St Monans harbour this afternoon …
View More Eiders in the harbourHome making house martins
The house martins mostly just use mud. Theirs are the nests that you see under the eaves and in the upper corners of windows. Swallows…
View More Home making house martinsSwallows in the mud
The swallows (and house martins) are back, and they are busy. Nest building for both has a ready source of raw material in the harbour.…
View More Swallows in the mudThe noisy whitethroat …
I’ve seen this bird a few times recently. I’m not sure if it has become more common, or whether I am noticing them more –…
View More The noisy whitethroat …Sparrows with attitude
You probably think they are cute. But when you take a closer look, they can be mean and ornery lookin’ critters …
View More Sparrows with attitudeThree 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-second speed when you look at…
View More Three photos, taken in less than a secondYou looking at me?
“Who’s a pretty boy, then?” and probably countless other possible captions for this photo … This blue tit was fascinated by the dog’s bowl, and…
View More You looking at me?Newtonmore garden
There’s a place in Newtonmore where visitors are spoilt, and that includes the feathered ones being treated to lashings of nuts, fat balls and seeds. This weekend,…
View More Newtonmore gardenFinches in flight
Not the easiest photographs to take. I decided to take advantage of a bird feeder where the birds are slowing down, coming in to land.…
View More Finches in flightSiskin
Siskin nicely posing for the camera … one of many interesting garden visitors attracted by my hosts’ lavish avian lunch offerings …
View More SiskinStartling Starling
I’m not sure why this starling has such a manic look – although they are quite manic birds, always squabbling and fighting. It had just…
View More Startling StarlingAlca torda
Having featured puffins and guillemots, it would be churlish not to complete the trio of auks that nest on the Isle of May. So here’s a…
View More Alca tordaUnbridled guillemot, and bridled …
Sticking with auks … “Bridled Guillemot : A form of the Guillemot Uria aalge with a white eye ring and a thin white line extending…
View More Unbridled guillemot, and bridled …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 and short legs set far back…
View More A is for auk
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