Garden Buzzards

The Buzzards are still visiting my garden to feed. The nest isn't far away and I'm hoping that they may bring the young with them soon. Here's a few recent shots.

Fox Cubs Growing Up

It's just over a month since I first started photographing the Fox cubs. I thought It would be a good time to do another post, to show how they have grown. They have become very independant now and will come to feed on their own or with their mother.

Kittiwakes

A recent trip to the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs in east Yorkshire turned out to be a very productive day. First to be processed are the Kittiwake images, here are a select few from the ones added to my website.

Little Gulls

This spring saw good numbers of migrating Little Gulls in the north west of England this year. It has been four or five years since we had so many, they lingered around for a couple of weeks, feeding on flies over fresh water lakes. This gave me the opportunity to get some shots, which I desperately needed of this species.

Fox Cubs

All my work has finally paid off in getting the Foxes to bring their cubs to feed. They were a little more mature than I would have liked but still cute and playful.

Butterflies

With some warm sunny weather finally here, us photographers can now complain about heat haze. This means taking sharp photographs of birds is almost impossible, except for the cooler conditions at the beginning and end of the day. I usually take advantage of this and spend some time photographing butterflies, dragonflies and insects. A trip out yesterday gave some reasonable results, although I never seem to get the shots I am after of the Orange Tips, they are a tricky species to get right.

Common Blue

Dingy Skipper

Orange Tip

Small Copper

Black-winged Stilts

I have finally got round to sorting through the 800 Black-winged Stilt images I took last year in Mallorca. It was the most photographed species of the week, as almost everywhere we went, they would be posing for the camera. From flying, wading in flat calm water, mating and even sitting on the nest, just about every possible shot was covered. Here are some of the first I have edited.