Gadwall
Duck identification isn’t my specialist subject for Mastermind. So when this handsome chap flies past I have to resort to Professor Google, …
Brambling
Brambling. Beautiful, aren’t they? In the UK, they are birds of our winter and their breeding numbers are 0-2 nests per year. …
Stock Dove portrait
I recently photographed a Stock Dove flypast and admired how the iridescent neck changed colour from baby-pink to bottle-green with the angle …
The egg thief
Carrion Crows don’t just eat carrion. This one has found an egg. I don’t know where the egg came from. The Crow …
Duckling time
It’s duckling time and a splishy and splashy grand parade of cuteness is heading my way. I think there are seven or …
Fire! Fire!
The scientific name of the Eurasian Bullfinch is Pyrrhula pyrrhula. It means Fire! Fire! That’s certainly what I think when one appears …