98 Pinks over head just now will, I’m sure, be my final garden tick before moving house in 2 weeks time @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social

Some wader portraits in this evening's nice light at Redcar @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social #birds

Still editing... and playing with light 🙂 @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Some portraits of Small Coppers from today @teesbirds.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social

Clouded Yellow taken locally this afternoon. Upperparts were cream, rather than yellow.. helice ? @teesbirds.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social

Still editing photos from my last holiday... Dad, Mother and cute baby Tufted Coquettes #birds

A couple more of Margrove's Pec Sand... @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social #birds

This evening's Margrove treat was this Greenshank. Pec, Ruff and LRP also still present. @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social #birds

Margrove continues its purple patch... Pec Sand from this afternoon and a showy Ruff... @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social #birds

A couple of butterflies from Teesmouth today @teesbirds.bsky.social

Nice water pic, with a #birds of course 😀

Margrove Ponds still looking good this evening... showy Dunlin, Common Sand, Kingfisher and two Grasshopper Warblers. @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social

Marching on together 😊

Today's challenge was to try and photograph Tufted Coquette. Of all the world's birds, only Cuba's Bee Hummingbird is smaller. To add to the degree of difficulty, they're absolute dynamos that never keep still. Anyway.... 6 hours later...

An evening boat trip at Caroni Swamp added a few dashes of colour to the trip....

Visited the wonderful Yerette gardens in Trinidad today. Lots of Hummers present (I saw 13 species including 7 new) and, as always, fun times trying to photographthem, in flight...

So on Trinidad mow and my quest for new Hummers starts again tomorrow... Meanwhile, here's my other two new ones from Tobago. Male and Female Black-throated Mango and Rufous-breasted Hermit.

Moving onto Trinidad today in search of more Hummingbirds. In the meantime, some other stuff from Tobago....

Visited a garden today renowned for attracting White-tailed Saberwings, in an effort to upgrade my pics to include flight shots...

Today's offering is Copper-rumped, which was my first new hummer of the trip. Suffers a lot from bullying, especially from the very aggressive Ruby Topaz, so it doesn't hang around long... making it a tricky one to photograph.

Ruby Topaz must win for appearance changing amongst birds. A dull dark-chocolate with a chestnut tail 99% of the time, that transforms into one of the most beautiful birds ever, at the flick of a switch. It's brief and hard to capture, as if hummer pics aren't hard enough! My efforts...

White-tailed Saberwing. A vulnerable species with a restricted range of high altitude forests in Tobago and a small population in Venezuela. Not enough light in the forest to attempt flight shots but high ISO capability of the R3 allowed at least for some perched. Cracking bird!

First day on Tobago spent recovering from travel, though duding around the hotel grounds added Copper-rumped to my hummingbird list. Sadly, not photographed but hopefully will sort that tomorrow - a full day in the forest including a 'hummingbird garden'. Lots of these two locally... Very tropical!

Average day off work… literally thousands of quality wildfowl included 2 drake Smew, Beans, White-fronts, Barnacles and Brents. Plus the biggest flock of Shore Larks I’ve ever seen, Hen Harrier… oh, and this fella… pic courtesy of Chris Bell 😊

Playing at the local feeders today... @nybirdnews.bsky.social @teesbirds.bsky.social

So bring on 2025! My first trip of the year (recent state of emergency permitting) is to Trinidad and Tobago in Feb, hopefully to photograph a few Hummers... having fallen in love with them a couple of years back...

Lots of activity at Errington feeders this morning, including this showy Willow Tit. @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social

Anyone in here advise me as to why notifications don’t appear when people I’m following post new messages? Is this an iPhone thing? I get notifications for likes and new followers but not new posts.

A splash of colour on this miserable, wet and windy weekend... From Costa Rica, last year.

Finally got out with the camera for the first time in ages... Treecreeoer at Lockwood Beck this am. @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social

Arty (too arty?) pic of Gadwall on local pond.. #birdphotography

One of the plus sides of being a Western Pal lister and not a British lister, is that I didn't feel the need to get involved in the scrums at Shelf recently..... Regular on my annual Corvo trips 😀

As IOC continues to lump away as part of the unification of bird lists, the first of what I suspect will be many of my WP lists goes… African Crimson-winged Finch bites the dust😡. My take from a cold Oukaimeden a few years back…

A few shots of some WP rarities from my annual Corvo trips. Didn't get there this year but hopefully 2025....

To get going on here, I'll post some of my fave pics... pending taking some new ones should the chance ever arrive :) . I'll start with one from last year's CR trip. Grey-capped fly.