The kestrel family in South Norwood Country Park is starting to fledge this week. They're raised at least four chicks this year (maybe more), and they're looking great for first flights any moment now. ๐ฆ ๐ฆ ๐ฆ ๐ฆ ๐ชถ #birds#birdphotography
Here's a female great-spotted woodpecker bringing back a beakful of food for her chicks at Thursley Common last weekend. ๐ชต๐ฆโโฌ๐ชถ #birds#birdphotography
How beautiful is this treecreeper I met at Warburg Nature Reserve! These little birds are so well adapted to their environment, if they want to disappear all they have to do is stop moving ๐ฅท๐ฆ๐๐ชถ #birds#birdphotography
Here's a juvenile stonechat bothering its father for food, at Thursley Common on Saturday! ๐ฆ๐ชถ. There were several recent fledglings flitting around the common, great to see them doing well there. #birds#birdphotography
Here's a stunning little bird that's a new one for me: spotted flycatcher! I met this bird at Thursley Common this morning ๐ฆ๐ชถ #birds#birdphotography
I'm prety amazed by the OM-1's sensor, these pics were taken at 1/8000s with the electronic shutter, and froze the wings of this four-spotted chaser perfectly! ๐๐ชฐ๐ฎ #insects#insectphotography
Here're a pair of blackcaps (male/female) in nearly the same pose on the same log prior to bathing, at Warburg Nature Reserve last weekend ๐ฆโค๏ธ๐ฆ๐ชถ #birds#birdphotography
The trials of parenthood. This blue tit at Warburg Nature Reserve is looking a bit scruffy because it's spending all day every day fetching food for the chicks, no time to preen! ๐ฆโค๏ธ #birds#birdphotography
Here's a little muntjac deer, briefly paused mid-cleaning at Warburg Nature Reserve last week. This one seems to be resident, regularly appearing at the hide. ๐ฆโค๏ธ
Splooshy birds 2 of 2. Here're a marsh tit, a male siskin, a female blackcap, and a chiffchaff bathing at Warburg Nature Reserve (Oxfordshire) yesterday. ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ชถ๐ #birds#birdphotography
Splooshy birds 1 of 2. Here're a coal tit, male blackcap, blue tit, and garden warbler, all bathing at Warburg Nature Reserve (Oxfordshire) yesterday. ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ชถ #birds#birdphotography
Here's a stunning hobby, wheeling above me at Staines Moor this morning, as it hunted mayflies on the wing. I watched three hobbies take dozens of mayflies! ๐๐ฆ ๐ชถ๐ชฐ๐ชฐ๐ชฐ๐ชฐ๐ชฐ๐ชฐ๐ชฐ๐ชฐ๐ชฐ๐ #birds#birdphotography