North Norfolk - 17 and 18/10/2009

Little Stint - Titchwell RSPB

Snow Buntings feeding, drinking, bathing and flying - Titchwell RSPB

Dunnock - Snettisham RSPB

Clouds of Knot - Snettisham RSPB

Four Knot, one still in partial breeding plumage - Snettisham RSPB

Waders in the late afternoon sun - Snettisham RSPB

Pink-feet - Burnham Norton Marshes

Pink-feet - Burnham Norton Marshes

10 - 18/08/2009 Pembrokeshire - some birds and one caterpillar

Just a female House Sparrow, but sitting there on top of a post looking so photogenic!!Wheatears on St David's Head

Wheatear on Ramsey Island, sticking its tongue out!

Juvenile Peregrine Falcon over Ramsey Island

Herring Gull flypast

Raven over Ramsey Island

Emperor Moth caterpillar

We saw probably about a dozen Choughs, but I could not get any really good shots, mainly because I did not have my telephoto lens with me at the right times!

Fulmar flying over Ramsey Sound

28/07/2009 - A Walk in the Bedfordshire Countryside with Various Insects

I know next to nothing about insects and asked my mate Paul to help with some identification!

Azure Damselfly

Brown Hawker
Common Darter

Terrible photo - but Azure Damselfly again?

Common Darter again

The next four are all Common Blues!

Black-tailed Skimmer

Blashford Lakes LNR, Hampshire - 13/06/2009

The photographic highlight of our weekend in the New Forest area was a visit on Saturday to Blashford Lakes, a lovely reserve with a good variety of birds. We were lucky enough to have a pair of Little Ringed Plovers nesting within four or five metres of one of the hides, and the weather made for excellent lighting conditions. I got some reasonable shots of other waders and water birds too, including a nesting Little Grebe. Conditions in the woods were as always far more difficult, and the results of birds at feeders lacked sharpness. However, it's not every day that you get the opportunity to photograph Siskin, for example, at close quarters - and the Jackdaw was having a good scoff at the feeder too.