Osprey taking off
A couple of years ago I posted some pics of an osprey 'couple.' We're back in the same area this year and Nick and Nora are still on that nest. Pics...
A pyramids view
This is a vertical orientation pano compiled from ten donor images.
OM-1 Mark 1, 12-100 Pro @44mm f/5 ISO 400 (overlooked -...
Spectactular Sunrise
I'm going back re-organising my photo archive and of course along the way I keep stopping to look at some of the images of yesteryear. It's tempting...
The Sphinx
It's quite a sight close up and the scale compared to the onlookers is impressive in the shot, but the Sphinx is truly dwarfed by the nearby great pyramids...
Black kite, I think, over the Nile at Luxor
Apologies for the very poor quality, but this was a tiny spec on the frame using my 75-300 @300mm, taken from our hotel balcony. I think it's a black...
Mistletoe
The local Mistletoe flowers as a red flower and around here seems to be mainly hosted on Casuarina trees. There are about 90 species of endemic mistletoe,...
Wasp
!st of February and we have the first wasps in the garden.Here in uk it is a bit early for them.A sign of global warming.Pic taken with 60mm macro and...
My Trail birds....
Not just any Robin, but one I normally feed at the trail. It is looking forlorn because I did not bring any food for it. I now feel guilty...

The Grand Egyptian Museum at night
We were fortunate that they had opened the huge new museum at Giza fully only a few weeks before our trip. We spent two days there and could have spent...
Cockatoos and Corella
On a walk by the Canning River there were a variety of birds. Here are a few.
Red-tailed Black Cockatoo. Here is a male on a branch feeding...
Red-tailed Black Cockatoo. Here is a male on a branch feeding...
Carrion crow inbound
From today (OM-1 with the 150-400mm at 1/2500 and f5.6)
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Northern Cardinal - Male
The Northern Cardinal is the State Bird of North Carolina and is quite common.
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Little Egret
The weather has been too cold for my liking recently, so I have only been out with my camera once so far this year. This Little Egret flying against a...
An old photo remastered!
I took this with my very first Olympus camera - an E-PL5 back in 2014 (with the 45mm f1.8). But I was doing some tidying up and decided to give it some...
A couple of UK invasive birds, descendants of escapees...
I heard these Ring-Necked Parakeets calling loudly the other day around Aylesbury and managed to track them down in some trees. The male is the one with...
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