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Long-Tailed Tits are becoming more common over winter. Reports say it's because they have learned to use the bird feeders. I know they love scones.
Cock Pheasant
Firecrest.
Blackbird
Robin
Female Blackcap
Bar Tailed Godwit eating something gloopy.
Trio of Dunlin
Avocet
Greenshank
Teal
Canada Goose napping in the afternoon sun.
Little Egrets fighting
Tufted Duck.
Robin singing.
Wood pigeon feeding youngster.
Heron in a tree. 'See more fish from here'
Long tailed tit.
Kestrel with TWO rats in her talons
Great tit nesting in a new box.
Dunnock singing.
Obviously a Redshank.
OK they are not strickly wild birds, but the combination of the Peacock Blue and the Yellow Lichen is stunning
Blue Tit
Wren singing
Goldcrest. Not a sharp photo but a great pose
British Birds
Great Tit in flight
Male Bullfinch
Buzzard
1) Birds in my garden
Greenfinch
2) Poole Harbour shoreline Including Brownsea island
Black Tailed Godwit
Grey Plover
Four distant Curlews
Blue tit nesting.
Widgeon
Shoveler
Avocet in flight
Brent Goose
Young Chaffinch visiting my studio
Young Sparrow
Young Blackbird in my studio
Young Coal Tit hasn't got the hang of the feeder yet
Odd one out. One Blacktailed Godwit still in summer plumage.
Oyster Catcher
Jay
Chaffinch
Avocets. Notice they are facing into the wind.
Curlew
3) Mixed locations (Dorset)
Nuthatch
Great tit
Coal Tit
Kittiwake
Black Headed Gulls
Pied Wagtail
Photographed around Poole in Dorset 2009-10
All Photos © Keith Rawling
Male Blackcap
Female Blackcap
Fieldfare
Fieldfare
Redwing
Redwing
Lapwing
Common Tern
Watching Birds is one thing... photographing them is quite another skill altogether. I thought it an interesting challenge to photograph birds in just two locations.....in or from my garden or around the shores of Poole Harbour.. and see just how many species can be photographed successfully in interesting poses or situations.
These photo have been reduced in size and quality 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.
I use Nikon D90 and D300s cameras, Nikkor lenses..... Patience, anticipation, experience and a bit of luck......
Nuthatch
Not Close Enough Department
Dartford Warbler
Red Brested Megansers
Slavonian Grebe
Great Black-Backed Gulls
Cormorant
Black Headed Gull (winter)
Herring Gull
Jackdaw
Magpie
Cormorant with a fish in it's beak
Two Greylag geese in flight. One with wings up the other wings down.
Mallard ice skating (pairs)
Rock pipit
Coot
Mute Swan
Brent Goose
I definately get a lot of pleasure capturing birds in flight. Only a stills camera can freeze a moment in time that the eye cannot see.
Turnstone, perched and in flight
We do live quite close to the sea!
Jay
Willow Warbler
House Sparrow in the rain
Female blackbird
Blackbird
Jackdaw with vivid yellow eye
Moorhen
Young Mistle Thrush
Peregrine Falcon flying (high) over the house
A Wren has started nesting
Common Gull
