After years of photographing Goldfinches in London, one day trip to Yorkshire and I get my best ever photo of one. It's not just people who are friendlier in the North ;-) R5;800mm (cropped); 1/640s; f9; iso3200 #birds #goldfinch #ukbirds

Took a 430 mile round trip by train on Saturday to see puffins on the Yorkshire coast. Saw one puffin, and tens of thousands of gannets. Pretty happy with the result! R5;800mm(cropped);1/800s;f10;iso800 #birds #gannets #rspbbempton #ukbirds

A rare attempt to photograph flora instead of fauna. Very happy with how this came out. #dandelion

Just a humble robin, taken in my local south London park. This was a rare occasion with wildlife when I held back from using the full zoom. #birds #robin

Kestrel, Hampton Court Park, London. It did a dozen hunting swoops from low perch to long grass in the 45 minutes I was watching it, but this is the only sequence I managed to keep in frame and in focus. R5; 560mm; f11; iso10,000; edited in CS5 #birds #kestrel #londonbirds #ukbirds

Kestrel, Hampton Court Park, London. Only the 3rd time I'd seen one and I got to spend nearly 45 minutes following it from perch to perch as it hunted in the long grass. Canon R5; 1050mm; 1/250s; f14; iso3200; Edited in CS5 #birds #ukbirds #londonbirds #kestrel

Grey heron. Sometimes graceful, sometimes floofy 😂 #birds #herons #ukwildlife #londonbirds

Grey heron and little egret. Not rare to see them near each other but, after taking thousands of photos of both over the years, this is my best composition with both together so far. 600mm(cropped); 1/200s; ISO 6400; f45 (still couldn't get both in focus). South London #birds #littleegret #greyheron

Little egret, paddling in a puddle as the stream was too deep for fishing after the rain. South London. #birds #littleegret

I usually prefer my perching-bird pics to have a clear background and minimum of foreground twigs, but I really like this one despite it being on the cluttered side. #birds #kingfishers

Kingfisher, just coming out of a hover a split second before flying off. South London park.

Even in winter the almost leafless weeping willow still makes a great backdrop. #birds

New Years's Resolution - More Kingfishers ;-) #birds #kingfishers 1/320s;f14;+2.66;ISO8000;R5;1120mm

Closest I've seen our local kingfisher get to a little egret - normally the KF loiters in the branches above the egret when they're both fishing the same spot. #birds #kingfishers Happy New Year to you all 🙂

Had my camera repaired recently so I missed the start of the kingfisher season, but first day out with it and I found our regular local showing off her curves ;-) South London park. R5: 1120mm: 1/250: f14: iso1250 #birds #londonbirds #kingfisher #kingfishers #alcedoatthis

Such a gorgeous, healthy fox in my local south London park. Maybe a squint in one eye, but then they were looking into the sun. Love the traffic lights background. #redfox #vulpesvulpes #foxoftheday

This Egyptian Goose can smell my BBQ Beef flavoured Hula Hoops from half a mile away and is coming to get them! 😂 Richmond park, London #birds #egyptiangeese

Probably a male juvenile kingfisher, from my local South London Park. There was a mating pair here last summer so it's nice to think this is their offspring but no way of being sure. Cloudy, 1/200s;800mm;f10;ISO2500 Removed a couple of twigs in CS5. #kingfisher #birds #alcedoatthis

Its just a step to the left....(and minor adjustments to the settings) Grey heron in a South London Park. 798-892mm;1/1000-1/800s;f13;+0.67,-0.33;ISO640-500 #greyheron #birds

Good camouflage is essential for herons if they want to observe photographers in the wild. #greyheron #birds

Goldfinch coming in to land on a bird feeder. R5;1120mm (cropped) #goldfinch #birds

Battersea power station yesterday.Taken and edited on a mobile (pixel 9a). #batterseapowerstation #celebrasia

Manx Shearwaters off the Pembrokeshire Coast R5;600mm;1/1000s;f10;ISO1250 #birds #manxshearwaters

Manx Shearwaters off the Pembrokeshire coast. R5;800mm(cropped);1/2500s;f13;ISO4000 #birds #manxshearwater

Last one for a spare! (Bowling pin reference, if anyone didn't get that). #puffin #birds

Haven't posted much non-wildlife on here, so here's a landscape. Carew Castle in Wales. Taken with one foot in the river and one cheek in a gorse bush 😂 #carewcastle #b&wlandscapes

Barn swallow, Skomer Island, Wales. Tried and failed (many times) to get a good photo midair but was happy when this one settled for a few seconds close to the hide. R5;450mm;1/1250s;f10;ISO1600 #swallow #barnswallow #birds #skomer #ukbirds

Puffin on Skomer Island, Wales, 27th July 2025. Just emerged from its burrow and having a stretch before heading out to sea. R5;1120mm(cropped);1/500s;f13;ISO800 #puffin #puffins #skomer #birds #ukbirds

Puffin on Skomer Island, Wales. Taken 27th July. A record 43,000 on the island this year but I went late season and only got up-close (relatively) to half a dozen of them. R5;1120mm(cropped);1/800s;f14;ISO1600 #puffins #puffin #skomer #birds

Gannet off Ramsey Island, Wales. Circling above a pair of porpoises, waiting to steal their fish. 1120mm(cropped);1/2000s;f14;iso1250 #birds #gannets

Puffin on Skomer island, Wales. There were 43,000 on the island this year but the boats for peak season sell out well in advance and probably only a few hundred were left on Sunday when I visited. I'd walked 80% of the circumference before I saw my first ever one up close.

I normally see herons nearly every time I visit my local park but in summer the overgrown banks hide the river from view. Was happy to see this one in Morden Hall Park instead, and such a good location in the fading evening light. 1/250s;288mm;f7.1;ISO2000;EV-1 #birds #herons #londonbirds

Peregrine falcon chicks practicing their hunting moves on each in the sky over south London yesterday evening. After a long wait I only had 10 minutes with them before the sun set and the light disappeared. 800mm (cropped); 1/2500s;f9;ISO 10,000 #birds #peregrinefalcon #londonwildlife

A bit of sibling rivalry between 2/4 peregrine falcon chicks that hatched on the roof of the Merton Civic Centre. I've been following their progress on webcam since the day they were laid (and other broods in previous years) but this was my first sighting in real life. Shame they prefer the shade!

Male banded demoiselle. 400 shots, 200 containing a damselfly. 50 looked in focus on the camera. 5 had a good wing spread. 1 was in focus on the computer. R5;800mm(cropped);1/2500s;f10;ISO2500;-1EV Curves & sharpen in CS5 Dragonflies that hover are much easier! 😂 #bandeddemoiselle #dragonflies

Canada goslings in Morden Hall County Park. I love the lighting effects from overexposing the shaded chicks against the bright sunlit lawn in the background. #birds #goslings #canadageese

Just after I took this a moorhen did a frantic 10m sprint across the water in pursuit of the grey heron. Subsequent action was obscured by the leaves but the moorhen emerged with a beak full of feathers! A short stand-off, before the heron backed down and went to fish elsewhere. #birds #heron

For years I've struggled to get a clear shot of a Jay despite them being relatively common. Preferring to hide in the branches and leaves, and rarely staying in one place for long, I was amazed when this one posed for me in the open for a full 5 minutes. #birds #jays #corvids

Juvenile robin about to take off. South London; Today; 1/2500; f10; iso6400 #robin #birds

Hovering house sparrow South London; Today; 1/2000;f9;ISO2000 #sparrow #birds

Juvenile long-tailed tit. Shame about the branches in the top right corner, but there weren't many gaps through the leaves. South London; Today; 1/640; f9; +0.33; ISO1600 #longtailedtit #birds

The bonus of Spring and being able to lie on the grass to get the right angle for the shot without getting covered in mud 🙂 #squirrel

Grey heron approaching to land, London Wetland Centre #birds #greyheron #herons

A relatively long exposure of a swarm of flies skimming the surface of the river through a patch of sunlight. I could calculate that each wing flaps about 90 times per second. 800mm (cropped); 1/6s; f14; iso100

A pair of Fulvous Whistling Ducks. London Wetland Centre

White-headed duck. Presumably named so because the blue-billed duck was discovered first and there were no other white-headed ... Nope, still doesn't make sense to me 😂 Anyway, this one was pretending to be a bug-eyed puffer fish.

Barnacle goose. London wetland centre, 11th April. 800mm;1/500s;f10;iso320

Great-crested grebe. London Wetland Centre, 11th April 2025. 800mm;1/640s;f10;iso500 #birds #greatcrestedgrebe #londonwetlandcentre

Took a few visits to my local London park to locate the source of the hammering noise around the biggest plane tree. But once I'd found the hole it was a matter of waiting until the noise stopped, and sure enough the greater spotted woodpecker then had a look around before getting back to work.

Just a blue tit, but I like the arrangement of the leaves. #birds #bluetit