Finally for today, while I was watching the siskins, a female sparrowhawk flew over! 😍🦅. A beautiful bird, but I'm glad she didn't have a go at the siskins! 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a pic of a gorgeous female siskin, briefly paused between bites of cypress nuts at Dunorlan Park this morning. I watched a little flock of half a dozen birds work their way through this tree. 🐦😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here're a stunning pair of siskins (male above, female below), munching away on some cypress nuts at Dunorlan Park this morning 🐦😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a lovely male green-winged teal, in quack mode at at WWT Slimbridge last weekend. 🦆😍 #birds #birdphotography

Here's another clip of the female marsh harrier at WWT Slimbridge on Sunday. Here the crows got a little too confident and needed to be reminded who is the boss... 🦅🪶🍽️😬 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a female marsh harrier, snarfing down on a recently-deceased canada goose (?) at WWT Slimbridge yesterday. Please excuse the shaky camera-work, this was a 75% crop of a 2000mm focal length, in a hide with people walking up and down. 🦅🍽️😋 #birds #birdphotography

... and here's an elegant male stonechat, accompanying the female I posted earlier today. There were great autumnal colours at RSPB Farnham Heath last weekend 🪶🐦😍 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a gorgeous little female stonechat I met at RSPB Farnham Heath last weekend. I was there on a protracted lurking session for crossbills, but I was happy to meet Mr & Mrs stonechat while I was waiting. 🪶🐦😍 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a sweet little long-tailed tit I met at RSPB Pulborough Brooks a couple of weeks back. It's been miserable, cold, and wet since, so I haven't goten out again. 🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Three-way cock-fight!!! Light was poor at Limpsfield yesterday, but these three male pheasants negotiating who's the boss brightened up my day! 😜🐦🐦🐦🥊. No-one got hurt, it's all theatrical. Apologies for the dodgy focus, I'm still learning... #birds #birdphotography

It was too foggy and dark for photography today, so here's a lovely male blackbird I met at RSPB Pulborough Brooks last weekend. 🍂🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here're a somewhat distant Mrs & Mr bullfinch at RSPB Pulborough Brooks last weekend! First time I've ever photographed bullfinch, hopefully I'll be able to get closer at some point. 😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

I think it's important not to overlook the common birds, so here's a beautiful little robin, from RSPB Pulborough Brooks last weekend, early in the morning 😍🌅🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here're a female, immature male, and male crossbill, drinking at RSPB Farnham Heath yesterday morning 🌲🐦🐦🐦🌲😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography @rspb.bsky.social

Here're a lovely pair of stonechats (m/f) at RSPB Farnham Heath yesterday, while I was on a protracted skulk for crossbills (see other posts). 🐦😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography @rspb.bsky.social

Here's an absolutely stunning juvenile male red crossbill, half moulted into his first set of (red) adult feathers 😍. Pic from @rspb.bsky.social Farnham Heath this morning. #birds #birdphotography

Due to popular demand, here're a few more pics of the stunning goldcrests at RSPB Broadwater Warren yesterday 👑🐦😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

Here's a beautiful little robin, singing near me at Bradbourne Lakes yesterday 🐦❤️🪶 #birds #birdphotography

As well as goldcrests (previous post), I had some lovely little marsh tits gleaning through the autumnal oak tree at RSPB Broadwater Common today 😍🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography @rspb.bsky.social

Here's a stunning goldcrest, gleaning through an oak tree at RSPB Broadwater Warren this morning. I watched a mixed flock of goldcrests, marsh tits, and blue tits "popcorning" around this tree for five minutes 😍👑🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography @rspb.bsky.social

My first kingfisher since moving down to Oxted! I found this lovely female at Bradbourne Lakes, Sevenoaks, this morning 😍👸🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

I've set up a few scavenged (fallen) branches above my bird feeders, and my local (Oxted) blue tits gave me some lovely autumnal poses this morning 😍🪶🐦 #birds #birdphotography

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