It was a gloomy overcast day at Welwick salt marsh with not much to show for our efforts and ceratinly no images in the bag. We returned to the car and wondered what to do to salvage the day and while deliberating, an alert came in of a Pallas’s warbler at the copse near Easington...
Despite the gloomy overcast weather, we headed to Bishop’s Wood near Selby to see if there were any butterflies to be had. This place can be fantastic for insects and last year, a short visit there yielded white-letter hairstreak, silver-washed fritillary, meadow brown, ringlet, skippers and a whole raft of whites but it was a...
Much less common than it once was, reed bunting can still be found locally to where I live. As the COVID-19 lockdown continues, I’m reinspired to bird locally around my village and I always enjoy photographing the everyday birds I find. This immature male reed bunting was coming to the feeding station located at Anglers...
As the lockdown continues due to the covid-19 outbreak. I headed once again to the local countryside to try and capture a few images and see what, if any, spring migrants were in. Newly arrived and swirling arounbd over the reservoir were around 30 sand martins and a long staying long-tailed duck gave distant views....
I photographed this spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor) in Spain a few years ago. We were in a hide overlooking a broken pan-tiled roof where a small colony of lesser kestrels were breeding. Mixed in with the kestrel were good numbers of spotless starling, a Spanish speciality. I have many images of them from several visits...
