One more hummer: Wire-crested Thorntail

Who comes up with these names (however accurate a description)? Another stunning hummingbird from our Northern Peru trip last November. If you ignore...
 

South America Part 1: Lima

After our overnight flight from Miami, we met our group leader. Jorge would be with us for the entirety of our trip. At each location, we met a local...
 

Whats this..............?


On our local shallow river, under trees, and a wingspan of a metre or so.

Cormorant is my thought, but not really a space...
 

3 from Southend City Day.

OM 1 12-100mm
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A Tender Moment.

Ragged Victorians At Gladstone Pottery 2025. OM1 MK2 / OM 12-40MM F2.8 / ISO 320 / 16MM / F5 / 1.25th Sec / Hand Held / Processed from Raw file into Capture...
 

Sometimes weather-sealing can't help ......

On winter Saturdays I am often on camera duty for our local rugby club. I trotted off to our away game yesterday expecting it to be grey, maybe damp,...
 

Tree Sparrow

These were like hens teeth where we used to live (Berkshire), now we have 10 nesting in the garden!! C&C welcome, thanks for looking.

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female Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis).

Northern Cardinal, female.



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Stroud today

Luckily I strolled by while this man was on a ciggy break.

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Not at all the right lens for this jackdaw photo

Totally unsuitable kit but saw this jackdaw on the garden feeder this morning and grabbed this snap with the camera and lens that was out - EM10iv with...
 

The sun was out yesterday yippee

Yesterday the sun came out so I went over to Faiburn Ings ans St Aidanes reserves and managed to obtain a few photos


Strange...
 

Another stunning hummingbird: Rufous-crested Coquette

Another tiny, stunning hummingbird which we had failed to find on previous visits to Costa Rica and Colombia. Fortunately we found several in the gardens...
 

New and Old

Things are starting to change in the garden.


New growth




Old timer

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Angry Bird...



Call me Sir...

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Goosander (Mergus merganser) at Kidwelly Keys Wales

Down at Kidwelly Keys LLanelli area this week and there were 3 Goosanders (Mergus merganser)​ swimming around.OM1 mk1 and 150-600mm lens f6.3-1/100...

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Z8 the flying rat.. attention of Ian

a rat escapeing the rising tide yesterday hmm top one a direct upload so yes its working but effecting the colour profile and second shot a upload with...
 

New camera

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long tailed tit Z8

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