There's a medium-sized flock of Canada geese visiting Oxted each morning. I met them this morning just north of the town. 🇨🇦🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Today in buzzard news, I had a low pass from one of the local birds just north of Oxted, in lovely morning light. 🦅🪶 #birds #birdphotography

I mostly photograph birds, but it would have been rude to ignore this handsome male fallow deer galloping along the North Downs above Oxted this morning! 🦌😍

Buzzards might well be the biggest, baddest bird in the woodland, but crows gain street-cred by getting behind and pulling the buzzard's tail-feathers... 🐦🐦🦅🥊🪶🪶🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Woot! Lifetime achievement unlocked! 🦅🪶 #birdphotography #birds

Autumn has officially arrived on our profile! 😍🍂 A huge thank you to everyone who submitted their stunning seasonal snaps. Our new cover features this fantastic Buzzard among the autumn hues, captured by @hummingbird-the.bsky.social.

Here's a lovely dunnock, from Limpsfield this morning. I was out skulking for buzzards again, and this one popper up nearby. 🪶🐦 #birds #birdphotography

Awful light & sky for photography this morning, but I enjoyed watching a large mixed flock of finches in Limpsfield, along the river Eden. Left to right: male siskin, goldfinch, female greenfinch. I also saw chaffinches in the flock. 🐦🐦🐦😍 #birds #birdphotography

I'm pretty amazed at the video quality here, I was standing 100m away from my local buzzard (Limpsfield) in poor light this morning. OM-1 camera at 2000mm focal length, monopod, 50% crop 🦅😀 #birds #birdphotography

Here're a couple of stills of this morning's common buzzard. In the first pic you can see it has wet feathers from its bath. It had dried out by the time of the second pic. 🦅🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here're a few woodland birds I met this morning at Limpsfield, while watching the buzzard (previous post). A female greenfinch, a chiffchaff, and a dunnock. 🐦🐦🐦🐦🙂🪶 #birds #birdphotography

My local buzzard living along the river Eden (Limpsfield) gave me some lovely autumnal photographic opportunities this morning. It had evidently had a bath, and was drying itself in the morning sun, occasionally calling. 🦅😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here're a few stills of my local buzzard (Limpsfield). Most mornings, it's perched in the same row of trees along the river Eden, sunning itself and calling. 😍🦅🪶 #birds #birdphotography

I caught up this morning with the very chilled-out buzzard living along the river Eden, in Limpsfield. Preening in the morning sun 😍🦅 #birds #birdphotography

I walked from Oxted up the North Downs this afternoon in between the rain showers. I met four raptor species today: red kite, common buzzard, a male kestrel (not pictured) and, unusually, a hobby! Initially I thought it was a peregrine, until I saw the orange pantss 🐦😍🦅 #birds #birdphotography

Finally for today, here's a moody shot of a robin that briefly perched for me on a lit branch against a mostly-dark forest backdrop. 🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Not the perfect angle, but I don't often get the chance to photography a pheasant in flight. They tend to spend most of their time on the ground, and only fly when startled. This one was chasing one of its colleagues, so wasn't flying away from me. 🪶🐦 #birds #birdphotography

Jackdaws are common birds, but they're beautiful! This one in St Peter's Church-yard, Limpsfield, this morning. 🐦‍⬛🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here're a few stills of this morning's common buzzard, warming itself in the sun along the river Eden, in Limpsfield. 😍🦅🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's an adult goldfinch keeping a close eye on one of its fledglings, in Limpsfield this morning. Note the absence of red/black/white facial feathers on the juvenile. 😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Another clip of this morning's chilled-out common buzzard, warming itself in the sun in along the river Eden, Limpsfield. So glad to see one living within 5 minutes of my front door! #birds #birdphotography 🪶🦅😍

(sound on!) Here's a very chilled-out common buzzard I met in the middle of Limpsfield this morning! 🦅😍

I rode the Bianchi down to Brighton this morning, to enjoy a ride in late-summer countryside before it starts to feel autumnal. Heard and saw lots of buzzard family-groups, the adults calling the juveniles to come fly and hunt. 🚴🏻‍♂️🌊⛵🐟🍟🦅🦅🦅

The crime / the criminal #proofOfCat

Alert! Wrens can make themelves quite tall when they want to be 🙂 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

While walking up the North Downs this morning, I watched a female great-spotted woodpecker do some wood-pecking, high above me. 🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Ears, eyes, and cobwebs🐰👁️🕸️. There were plenty of rabbits out quietly foraging in farmland around the North Downs this morning... 🐇🐇

(continued from previous). Here're a couple of pics of the adult wrens, note the longer tails compared to the juvi's (previous post). 😍🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

I met a family-group of wrens on my walk in the North Downs this morning. Two adults and what seemed to be three fledglings, living in a bramble patch around a mature tree. Note the very short tail, indicating a young bird 😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

I saw all three of the common raptors on my local walk around the North Downs from Oxted this morning: red kite, buzzard, and a male kestrel (with mid-morning snack). 🦅🦅🦅🐁💀🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Finally for today, here's a robin giving it the beans in the early morning at Limpsfields Common. 🙂🪶 #birds #birdphotography

It wasn't only blackcaps after berries this morning. Here's a lovely song thrush in berry-heaven in a quiet part of Limpsfield Common. 😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

The blackcaps were out in force this morning at Limpsfield Common! Here's a lovely female I watched, quietly snarfing berries near a busy trail. 😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

I spent two hours on top of the North Downs, checking out a new raptor-skulking point. I saw a buzzard fly over high, but nothing came near me. Eventually I got bored and headed home, and was overflown, low, by a red kite on the border of suburbia! 🦅🪶 #birds #birdphotography

While walking up the North Downs today in search of raptors, I noticed I was being watched 👁️👁️. A lovely roe deer was checking me out, just the other side of the fence 🦌.

Buzzard vs buzzard over my new place in Oxted yesterday! See the feathers fly! 🪶🪶🪶🪶🦅🦅🥊 #birds #birdphotography

Anyone lost a cockatiel in Royal Leamington Spa? Spotted canalside near Radbrook Way this morning. #lostbird #royalleamingtonspa

Final pic of one of the young sparrowhawks I've been following recently. Great to see them thriving in a busy South London park! 🐦😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Squeeeeeeee! A fledgling sparrowhawk calling, in a South London park last night. I was fortunate enough to have four birds chasing each other around the trees, whilst I sat in quiet appreciation 🪶😍 #birds #birdphotography

I like the heart-shaped markings on this young sparrowhawk's under-tail feathers! As if to say "I love (eating) you!" 🙃😍 🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

A bit more sparrowhawk action from a South London park this evening. The bird on the right was feeding, when the bird on the left tried to join it... 😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Light and shadow: Here's another of the freshly-fledged sparrowhawks in a South London park yesterday evening 😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

A freshly fledged sparrowhawk, mantling on the nest to defend its dinner in a South London park this evening 😍🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography . Hat tip to @daverouse.bsky.social

Another hot summer ride around Eynsford and Meopham this morning. 🌾🌾🌾🚴🏻‍♂️🐦🐄🌾🌾🌲🦋🌾🌾🌾🐦🦅🌾🌾🌲🦋🐈🐈‍⬛🌾🌾🌾🌲🌳🌲🌾🌲🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🐦‍⬛🐄🐄🌾🌾🌾

I've not had much time for bird photography recently, but I was glad to see my local (East Dulwich) goldfinches have successfully fledged! At least three fledglings are flitting around my garden 😍🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Hottest ride of the year for me, 33-36°C in the countryside around Cudham today! 🚴🏻‍♂️🌳🌲🐦🐄🐑🌾🌾🌾🐦‍⬛🍇🪶🦅🐛🦋🐞🥕🍅🍎🚜🌲🌳🌲

Here's a close crop of an adult female kestrel zooming past me at South Norwood Country Park yesterday. I love the heart-shaped markings on her wing lining! 😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Complete chaos at the nest box as Barry (the male kestrel) brings in the next vole. Five juveniles all flapping, calling, and climbing over each other to get to the head of the queue 😆😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

"Room for one more??" - One of the fledgling kestrels flares in to land with two of its siblings. The young kestrels have all fledged now and they are flying further from the nest box each day. 😍😍😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a stunning male greater whitethroat I met in South Norwood Country Park this morning. He was regularly perching and singing on the cow parsley heads, so I set up and waited... 😮😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography