Birds in flight

Sharp Swallow

I’m having fun in the sun practising my bird in flight photography. Perhaps the most difficult bird to photograph is the Barn …

And I didn’t disturb the bird to get it. We discovered a Green Woodpeckers’ nest just over a month ago. Since then …

Swifts are one of the last migratory birds to arrive in the UK and one of the first to leave. They are …

Duck identification isn’t my specialist subject for Mastermind. So when this handsome chap flies past I have to resort to Professor Google, …

A Grey Heron flies past me from left to right at Stover Country Park. I don’t notice it until it’s too late …

There’s a Black-Headed Gull, with its chocolate-coloured-head, above me, in all of its breeding finery. I wish it well, but silently. I …

There’s a Sand Martin colony on the River Otter. It’s a consolation prize for me, as there are no Otters here at …

There’s a male Common Kestrel on Aylesbeare Common. It’s remarkable how far away from a potential meal it begins its wing-folded descent. …

I remember the shock of finding out that Stock Doves exist. I know what a Feral Pigeon is: I know what a …

Little Egrets are large birds. In a previous century they wouldn’t have been called birds at all, since anything larger than a …

It’s the morning we leave Matera and we want to squeeze every last drop of joy out of the place. It may …