Bar Tailed Godwit eating something gloopy.
Knot
Greenshank
Canada Goose.
Little Egrets fighting
Heron
Kestrel with TWO rats in her talons
Obviously a Redshank.
OK Peacocks are not strictly wild birds, but the combination of the Peacock Blue and the Yellow Lichen is stunning
Buzzard
Blacktailed Godwit
Grey Plover
Oyster Catcher
Female Shoveler
Avocet
Blacktailed Godwit
Avocets.
Curlew
Kittiwake
Black Headed Gulls
Lapwing
Common Tern
Watching Birds is one thing... getting a good photo of them is quite another skill altogether. Talks given.
These photo have been reduced in size for the web. Most pictures are as shot. Some Aperture and Photoshop tweaks are made with some images, but not a lot. Available as 300dpi jpeg/.psd/.tiff files. as well as A4 prints
Schools, Libraries, Art and Wildlife centres.. Ask about having some of these photographs on exhibition.
I use Nikon cameras, Nikkor lenses..... Patience, anticipation, experience and a bit of luck......
Not Close Enough Department
Dartford Warbler
Red Breasted Mergansers
Slovenian Grebe
Great Black-Backed Gull
The Angel of the South
Herring Gull
Cormorant with a fish in it's beak
Two Greylag geese in flight. One with wings up the other wings down.
Coot
Brent Goose
The Beauty of Flight.
At the touch of a button you can freeze a moment in time which is usually invisible to the eye.
I find myself drawn towards this type of photography more and more, as shown on the bird pages.
At the touch of a button you can freeze a moment in time which is usually invisible to the eye.
I find myself drawn towards this type of photography more and more, as shown on the bird pages.
Turnstone
Jackdaw with vivid yellow eye
Moorhen
Gadwall
Coot
Tufted Duck.
Hobby
Gadwall
Hen Pheasant
Little Egret
Turnstone in flight
Redshank.
Blacktailed Godwit
Shelduck
The best time to see waders around Poole Harbour is in the winter time. Consequently most of the waders here are shown in winter plumage.
Blacktailed Godwit
Dunlin
Ringed Plover
Starling with cockle.
Teal
Oyster Catcher
Curlew
Dunlin
Spoonbill
Wheatear (autumn)
Rock Pipit
Spotted Redshank.
Blacktailed Godwit
Mediterranean Gull (imm)
Shoveler
Teal
Female Teal
Shelduck
Widgeon
Pochard
Skylark
Avocet
Avocet
Goldeneye
The challenge was to get quality photographs of wild birds from around the shoreline of Poole Harbour. Not necessarily to record the number of species, but to capture interesting poses and situations. I don't have time to spend hours and hours waiting.......
..just be in the right place, at the right time, in the right light ..and at the right state of the tide - Keith Rawling
..just be in the right place, at the right time, in the right light ..and at the right state of the tide - Keith Rawling
Avocet
Mallard
During the winter many visiting birds come closer inshore looking for food and there are fewer people about.
Sometimes you can get very close if you move quietly without any sudden movement. Most of these photos where taken from the northern and eastern shores on sunny winter days.
Sometimes you can get very close if you move quietly without any sudden movement. Most of these photos where taken from the northern and eastern shores on sunny winter days.
Little Grebe
Whitethroat
Linnet
Black Headed Gull
Sandwich Tern with a Sand Eel
Sandwich Tern with a Smelt
Sandwich Tern
The Sandwich Terns, Avocets and some of the others on this page were photographed on Brownsea Island. Thanks to The Dorset Wildlife Trust
Tufted Duck
Shelduck
Pied Wagtail (winter)
More Photos Here