Here's a lovely juvenile blackbird, drying itself off after a bath at Warburg Nature Reserve yesterday. Such a different colour-scheme compared to either male or female adult bird! 🐦‍⬛🙂🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a lovely little spotted flycatcher I met at Warburg Nature Reserve yesterday morning. It's been so hot and dry recently, everyone was coming down to visit the pond. 🙂🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Keeping with my seasonal theme of fledglings, here's an absolutely stunning juvenile robin! 🐦😍. Warburg Nature Reserve (Oxfordshire) yesterday morning. #birds #birdphotography

How adorable is this little fledgling bullfinch!!! 😍🐂🐦🪶. From my session at Warburg Nature Reserve (Oxfordshire) this morning. #birds #birdphotography

... and here's one of the recently fledged kestrels in portrait, at South Norwood Country Park yesterday morning. 🦅🪶😍 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a fledgling kestrel, chasing a butterfly at South Norwood Country Park yesterday 🦅🦋😆🪶. The resident kestrel pair seem to have four fledgling this season! #birds #birdphotography

Here's one of the fledgling kestrels at South Norwood Country Park, dismantling an unfortunate house sparrow it'd been given by its father a minute previously. 🦅🐦💀🍽️😬 #birds #birdphotography

The kestrel family in South Norwood Country Park is starting to fledge this week. They're raised at least four chicks this year (maybe more), and they're looking great for first flights any moment now. 🦅🦅🦅🦅🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here're some close-ups of Mrs & Mr green-winged teal, at Thursley Common last weekend. 💚🪽🦆🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here're Mr & Mrs green-winged teal, with this year's teal-lings, at Thursley Common last weekend. 🦆🐤🐤🐤🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a female great-spotted woodpecker bringing back a beakful of food for her chicks at Thursley Common last weekend. 🪵🐦‍⬛🪶 #birds #birdphotography

How beautiful is this treecreeper I met at Warburg Nature Reserve! These little birds are so well adapted to their environment, if they want to disappear all they have to do is stop moving 🥷🐦😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a juvenile stonechat bothering its father for food, at Thursley Common on Saturday! 🐦🪶. There were several recent fledglings flitting around the common, great to see them doing well there. #birds #birdphotography

Here's a stunning little bird that's a new one for me: spotted flycatcher! I met this bird at Thursley Common this morning 🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

I'm prety amazed by the OM-1's sensor, these pics were taken at 1/8000s with the electronic shutter, and froze the wings of this four-spotted chaser perfectly! 🐉🪰😮 #insects #insectphotography

How gorgeous is this fledgling stonechat!! 😍🐦🪶. At Thursley Common yesterday. #birds #birdphotography

Here're a pair of blackcaps (male/female) in nearly the same pose on the same log prior to bathing, at Warburg Nature Reserve last weekend 🐦❤️🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

There are a lot of young rabbits around at the moment, here's one I met at Unstead last weekend! 🐇🙂 #rabbits #wildlifephotography

Here're a pair of barn swallows collecting mud at Unstead last weekend. 🐦❤️🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

The trials of parenthood. This blue tit at Warburg Nature Reserve is looking a bit scruffy because it's spending all day every day fetching food for the chicks, no time to preen! 🐦❤️ #birds #birdphotography

Here's a little muntjac deer, briefly paused mid-cleaning at Warburg Nature Reserve last week. This one seems to be resident, regularly appearing at the hide. 🦌❤️

Here's one of the resident curlew at Thursley Common last week. There're a pair setting up camp near Pudmore Pond. 🐦🪶🙂 #birds #birdphotography

It's always lovely to see peregrine falcons soaring along the cliffs! (southern England, this morning). 🦅🪶😍 #birds #birdphotography

Splooshy birds 2 of 2. Here're a marsh tit, a male siskin, a female blackcap, and a chiffchaff bathing at Warburg Nature Reserve (Oxfordshire) yesterday. 🐦🐦🐦🐦🪶😀 #birds #birdphotography

Splooshy birds 1 of 2. Here're a coal tit, male blackcap, blue tit, and garden warbler, all bathing at Warburg Nature Reserve (Oxfordshire) yesterday. 🐦🐦🐦🐦😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Spring's red kite, along Upload Road, Woldingham this morning. 🦅🙂 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a stunning hobby, wheeling above me at Staines Moor this morning, as it hunted mayflies on the wing. I watched three hobbies take dozens of mayflies! 😍🦅🪶🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰💀 #birds #birdphotography

You can almost see the "Huh?!?" speech-bubble above this common buzzard's head, as it suddenly realised it was being scolded by a sparrowhawk less than half its size, presumably for overflying the spawk's nest. 🦅 🥊🦅😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a sweet little mallard ducking at Pudmore Pond, Thursley Common last weekend. Good luck little one, you're going to need it 😬. Everything likes to eat ducklings.... 🤞 🦆🪶 #birds #birdphotography

I watched this great crested grebe catch a good-sized fish (plus salad) at Warnham Local Nature Reserve yesterday. 🎣🐦🥗🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a skulky reed warbler, momentarily showing reasonably well at Warnham Local Nature Reserve (Horsham) this morning. 🌾🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here're a pair of linnets I met at Thursley Common last weekend. First time I've been close enough to get some decent pics of these beautiful little birds! 🐦😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's one of the resident little grebes at Purmore Pond, Thursley Common yesterday. I like the reflections in this pic. 🎣🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's one of the resident curlew at Thursley Common yesterday. There're a pair settled into the wetland. 🐦🪶#birds #birdphotography

Here's another (male) common redstart, from Thursley Common last weekend. I've been in the UK nearly 20 years, how did I not meet these birds until a few weeks ago?!? 🔴🐦🎶🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a new one for me, a garden warbler! Met at Thursley Common last weekend. 🐦🎶🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's another pic of a male sparrowhawk, from my hide session a couple of weekends ago. 👁️🦅🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a male common redstart, at Thursley Common (Surrey) this morning. He was staking out his territory, flitting around and singing frequently. 🐦😍 #birds #birdphotography

Here're a female redpoll, and a male siskin, from Warburg Nature Reserve yesterday morning. Such colourful little birds! 🐦🐦😍 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a male Terminator-bird (aka sparrowhawk), from my hide session up in Leeds last weekend. That ferocious yellow eye! 👁️😮☠️🦅🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a long-tailed tit launching into flight, during my photography session up in Leeds last weekend. 🐦🪶😍 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a lovely female greenfinch, launching from a post, during my photography hide session up in Leeds last weekend. 🐦🪶🙂 #birds #birdphotography

I was nearing home after a cycle ride in the countryside yesterday afternoon when I heard a buzzard calling. I stopped and found where it was, perched in an oak on the side of the lane. I went back this evening with a camera, and sure enough, same bird, same location 🦅😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Along with riding to the Brighton seaside today, here's my traditional canola-field pic. Ok, it's a cash crop monoculture, but for me it's one of the signs of summer 🌞👒😎🥵

I did my traditional first-hot-weekend ride down to Brighton. Here's Brighton beach, looking west, with a bonus arse-end of a herring gull 🙂. 🌊⛵🐟🧜‍♀️🦐🍟⛱️🐧

Here's a soggy female bullfinch, fresh from her morning bath at Warburg Nature Reserve yesterday morning 🐦🪶🙂 #birds #birdphotography

Warburg Nature Reserve (Oxfordshire) delivered the good again this morning! The goods in this case being m&f bullfinches, m blackcap, marsh tits, siskin, redpoll, as well as the usual robins, blue tits, great tits, dunnocks & blackbirds 🐦🐦‍⬛🪶😍 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a rather lovely collared dove, from a hide in Leeds last weekend 🕊️🪶🙂 #birds #birdphotography

Here're a pair of greenfinches (male/right, female/left) from a hide session up in Leeds last weekend. 1/8000s shutter speed in good light captured the instant perfectly 💚🐦🐦😍 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a male chaffinch mid-flight, from a hide session up in Leeds last weekend 🐦😍 #birds #birdphotography