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

I was in the right place at the right time at Thursley Common this morning, and was able to take some footage of Dartford warblers going about their daily business (interacting, and preening). Taken at a respectful distance (50% crop of 1000mm FL). 🐦🐦🪶 #birdsphotography

Here's a new one for me: a male common redstart! I met this beautiful little bird at Thursley Common (Surrey) this morning. He was flitting between the trees and the ground, so I set up and waited, and my patience was rewarded. 🐦😍 #birds #birdphotography

Close-up feathers. Can you guess the species? 🪶🐦🌈 #birds #birdphotography

Nothing poses like a robin! 🐦🙂 At Warburg Nature Reserve yesterday morning #birds #birdphotography

Traditional early-Spring bluebells and PointyBike photo! 🪻🪻🪻🪻🪻🚴‍♀️

Spring's red kite, perched amongst the blossoms at Warburg Nature Reserve yesterday. I saw it land whilst I was photographing woodland birds from the hide, and managed to get a manually-focused shot through all the branches. 😍🦅🪶 #birds #birdphotography

I popped in to Watlington Hill yesterday, on the way home from Warburg Nature Reserve. The red kites are ever-present and curious, checking me out in case I had any unguarded food (I didn't). 🔴🪁🦅🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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