All of a sudden it's extremely chiffchaffy out there! This one was chiffing and chaffing very loudly at RSPB Pulborough Brooks this morning. 🐦📢🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a beautiful female blackbird warming herself in the morning sun at RSPB Pulborough Brooks this morning 🐦‍⬛🙂🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a rather lovely-looking wild rabbit, from Warnham Local Nature Reserve on Friday morning. 🐇😀 #wildlife #wildlifephotography

Here's another adder from this morning's walk around RSPB Pulborough Brooks! Great to see these precious reptiles in their natural environment, going about their daily business. 🐍

I've been in the UK nearly 20 years, never seen an adder until two weeks ago, and now I've seen four in the wild! This one was warming itself in the morning sun at RSPB Pulborough Brooks this morning. 🐍 "...a snake in the grass..."

Here's a new one for me! A (slightly damp) stoat I met at RSPB Pulborough Brooks this morning. It was gone in a flash, I'm lucky it hung around long enough for a few quick photos. @rspb.bsky.social #birds #birdphotography

I've been after this shot for a long time! A male dartford warbler, displaying on gorse, this one at Thursley Common today. 🐦🪶😍 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a slightly scruffy but beautiful male red crossbill, from Thursley Common this morning. ❌💵🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a short video of three heron chicks in the Kelsey Park heronry today, whilst a parent performed some nest maintenance. 🐦🐦🐦🐦😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's another pose from the male bullfinch I met at Warburg Nature Reserve last weekend 😍🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here're Mrs & Mr bullfinch having a morning bath, at Warburg Nature reserve last weekend. I had two males and one female visiting the pool several times during my visit. 🐂🐦🙂 #birds #birdphotography

Here's another pic of yesterday's adders, from Thursley Common 🐍🐍. This was early in the morning, they were sunning themselves and slowly warming up for another day's "adding". #snakes #britishwildlife

Here's a most beautiful male dartford warbler I met at Thursley Common (Surrey) yesterday morning. I've been after this species for a long while, and having recently moved down to Oxted it's become possible to go find them! 🐦😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

I don't often deviate from birds, but I'll make an exception for this gorgeous adder I met at Thursley Common this morning! One of a pair of adders quietly sunning themselves alongside a path 🐍😍 #snakes #adder #britishwildlife

Here's a male reed bunting, posing for me at Warnham Local Nature Reserve last weekend 🐦🪶😊 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a female great-spotted woodpeckerer I met at Warnham Local Nature Reserve last weekend 🌳🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotographer

Here's another pic of the resident male bullfinch at Warnham Local Nature Reserve, from last Saturday! 🐂🐦😀🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a rather lovely male redpoll I met at Warnham Local Nature Reserve yesterday! ❗🐦😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Another pic of the goldfinches feeding in my back garden yesterday. Half a dozen alighted to feed on the dead seed-heads. 🐦😊🪶 #birds #birdphotography

I had some bonus back-yard birding this morning! I was sitting on my sofa when I noticed a little charm of goldfinches had swooped down to pick through seed-heads in my back garden. I was able to sneakily open a window and take some photos 😍🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

The siskin of Spring! Green shoots and a male siskin at Warnham Local Nature Reserve yesterday 🙂🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

I see you watching me, Mr bullfinch 😍 🐂🐦🪶 . At Warnham Local Nature Reserve yesterday morning. #birds #birdphotography

This is turning out to be my siskin-iest winter ever! Here're four pics from a flock of 50-odd flitting around the feeders at Warnham Local Nature Reserve on Saturday morning. 🙂🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a lovely redwing I met at Kelsey Park (Beckenham) this afternoon. There's a huge cotoneaster tree with a dozen or more redwings skulking about in it, occasionally popping out to eat a berry or two 🐦🔴🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here're male and female red crossbills, at Crooksbury Common this morning. 🐦🪶🙂 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a lovely male red crossbill at Crooksbury Common this morning. ❌🐦🙂🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Heavy rain at Kelsey Park (Beckenham) this morning made for dramtic flight shots of the herons bringing in nesting material. Breeding season is in full swing now, lots of nest maintenance, pair-bonding, and mating going on. 🐦🪺🙂 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a lovely water rail (or maybe two water rails, depending on how you count them) at Kelsey Park, Beckenham, this morning! 🐦🪶😍. I really didn't expect to find one on a main path of such a busy suburban park. #birds #birdphotography

We surveyed Warburg Nature Reserve in spring 2017 and found 14 Marsh Tit territories, which is a pretty good number. The data formed part of this #OpenAccess paper, showing how woodland size, composition & forestry history affects Marsh Tits: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Nothing poses quite like a robin! At Warburg Nature Reserve last weekend 🪶🐦😍 #birds #birdphotography

Sploosh! A lovely marsh tit having a bath at Warburg Nature Reserve last weekend 🐦🛁🪶🙂 #birds #birdphotography

Here's an ultra-closeup of a robin at Warburg Nature Reserve last weekend. I do like all the complex little feathers around its eye. 🐦🪶🙂 #birds #birdphotography

I don't know what I did to disappoint this goldfinch, but clearly I did something.... at Warnham Local Nature Reserve a couple of weeks ago. 😀🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Light and dark at Warburg Nature Reserve yesterday. This blue tit looked stunning, briefly posing for me on a striated branch 🐦🙂 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a lovely marsh tit, with its interest piqued, at Warburg Nature Reserve yesterday morning 🐦🙂 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a robin in a rain shower at Warburg Nature Reserve yesterday morning 🐦😍 #birds #birdphotography

First visit to Warburg Nature Reserve this morning (Oxfordshire, UK). Here are a Blue tit, Robin, Great tit, and Marsh tit alighting on the same thoughtfully-placed photogenic perch 🐦😍 #birds #birdphotography

This male greenfinch was distinctly unimpressed with me, at Warnham Local Nature Reserve a couple of weeks back 🐦🪶🙂 #birds #birdphotography

I seem to be running into siskins wherever I go this winter! Here're a male and female from Warnham Local Nature Reserve last weekend 🐦🐦🐦 #birds #birdphotography

I visited South Norwood Country Park this morning, for the first time since August 2025, and I was glad to see Barry & Sue (the resident kestrel pair) seem to be doing ok. I look forward to seeing them raise another brood in 2026! #birds #birdphotography

...and here's a rather stunning male chaffinch, also from Warnham Local Nature Reserve on Saturday. I really like the complexity of his head-feathers. 🐦😻 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a lovely wren, at Warnham Local Nature Reserve on Saturday morning. This one was a regular at the pond in front of the bird-viewing screen. 🐦🙂 #birds #birdphotography

The redwings have found the berries out front of my house (Oxted)! This shot was taken out of my kitchen window. 🐦🏠📷✅ #birds #birdphotography

Here's a very wintery-looking fieldfare near Marsh Green yesterday. I usually don't like high-key shots, but this one really seems to convey how cold it was 🥶🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here're a few more pics of yesterday's male bullfinch, at Warnham Local Nature Reserve! 🐂🐦🪶😍 #birds #birdphotography

I was very happy to get this pic of a stunning male bullfinch at Warnham Local Nature Reserve this afternoon! I'd been chasing bullfinch sightings for months without success, sadly they are few and far between these days in Surrey and Kent. 🐂🐦😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a gorgeous male siskin, foraging with the female I posted earlier 😍🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a stunning female siskin at Tice's Meadow (Aldershot) this morning. I'm having a good winter for siskin sightings so far 😍 🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's another pic of a red kite at Watlington Hill, on xmas day 🔴🪁 🦅🎄🙂 #birds #birdphotography

I visited Warnham Local Nature Reserve (near Horsham) today, and I met the most obliging female kingfisher ever! She spent ten minutes fishing in front of the hide, not more than 3m away! 👸🎣🐦😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography