The early light is hitting the mountains on the other side of Lake Kerkini and bathing them in a warm orange glow. The rest is left in blue shadow. The Dalmatian Pelicans have gathered for the breakfast. Am I right in thinking that this one looks amused? I can assure …
There’s something enchanting about birds being able to project their own shadow onto themselves. Here’s a Black-Tailed Godwit with the shadow of …
The warmth of this image is a thrill. The difference in the mood of this image because of the changing light is …
The blues and purples of this image are very restful, aren’t they? So is being out on a boat on Lake Kerkini …
It’s that time of the evening, when the light becomes glorious as a few stray rays of the sun hit the other …
Yes! I’ve heard that I’m not British Wildlife Photographer of the Year! I’ve been encouraged by my dad to enter some of …
There’s something deeply appealing about the symmetry of these Dalmatian Pelicans. There’s also something worrying about them begging for fish thrown into …
The Goth Puffin lookalikes were out in force in Lyme Bay. I do love a good Razorbill flypast, but is it only …
Having Manx Shearwaters around our coasts in South Devon at this time of year makes ever boat trip into Lyme Bay one …
Great Cormorants have a large sign, only visible in the summer, to show they are adults and ready to breed. It’s a …
I love it when Northern gannets, Morus bassanus, drop from the skies. Just look at the beautiful spread of those tail and …
The Common Guillemots, Uria aalge, are wearing formal-wear at the moment. Their smart chocolate brown heads and white bellies look very smart …
There’s a Manx Shearwater, Puffinus puffinus, bonanza off Brixham at the moment. There was a flock of 29 out to sea and …
The old mill building at Rapness on Westray is heading for desolation, and quickly. Once you lose your roof, your walls are …
It’s breeding time again and this Shag in Brixham is all ready for action, with glossy black-green-bronze plumage, yellow lores and a …
The fluffy neck feathers of these Griffon Vultures confused me for a moment. Why would you have a feather duster for a …
It’s easy to lose track of scale when you spend time with Griffon Vultures. It’s when a group of Hooded Crows arrive …
It’s hard to identify the emotions of birds. We’re separated by 320 million years of evolution since our most recent common ancestor …
Dalmatian Pelicans are beautiful and getting more so as their mature breeding plumage approaches. Here’s one having a flap showing its wing …
Dalmatian Pelicans have a rockstar hairstyle. It’s bedhead on steroids. Just look at this unruly mess: The water at this time of …
I have far more photographs of sunsets than I do of sunrises. That’s because I’m usually not in bed until midnight and …
The Great White Pelican, Pelecanus onocrotalus, is also known as the Eastern White Pelican, the Rosy Pelican or just the White Pelican. …
There are Great White Pelicans at Lake Kerkini in Greece. There are fewer of them than Dalmatian Pelicans. Interestingly, Dalmatian Pelicans are …
As a Griffon Vulture approaches, with its fingered-wings spread, and its tail deployed downwards to brake its flight, it gets ready to …
It’s tricky when you get a fish stuck on your bill. Especially when you have no hands. This Dalmatian Pelican managed to …
Griffon Vultures have a wingspan of 2.3–2.8 metres, which is 7.5–9.2 feet in old money. The technical term to describe them is ‘massive’.
Griffon Vultures have a most curious walk. It’s a high-stepping display walk with neck and wings outstretched. It looks ridiculous, as well …
There’s a strange faculty which humans and other animals have. It’s the ability to see faces in things where there aren’t faces. …
Cinereous Vultures are scruffy. Ragged wings, unkempt body feathers and tattered tails. Maybe it’s just moulting. Or maybe it’s just scruffy.
The Golden Jackals are the next to arrive after the Griffon Vultures have descended upon the carcass outside our hide, high in …