Michael Sanders

I flit from hill to hill, eating my bodyweight in sugary nectar each hour, or I fall out of the sky.

[Michael Sanders @HummingBird_The]

I too have set up a bsky account. I'll be dual-posting to X and bsky to see how it goes....

[Michael Sanders @HummingBird_The]

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. 🦅🦅🦅🦅🪶 #birds #birdphotography

[Michael Sanders @HummingBird_The]

Here're some close-ups of Mrs & Mr green-winged teal, at Thursley Common last weekend. 💚🪽🦆🪶 #birds #birdphotography

[Michael Sanders @HummingBird_The]

Here're Mr & Mrs green-winged teal, with this year's teal-lings, at Thursley Common last weekend. 🦆🐤🐤🐤🪶 #birds #birdphotography

[Michael Sanders @HummingBird_The]

Here's a female great-spotted woodpecker bringing back a beakful of food for her chicks at Thursley Common last weekend. 🪵🐦‍⬛🪶 #birds #birdphotography

[Michael Sanders @HummingBird_The]

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 🥷🐦😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

[Michael Sanders @HummingBird_The]

Here's a juvenile stonechat bothering its father for food, at Thursley Common on Saturday! 🐦🪶. There were several recent fledglings flitting around the common, great to see them doing well there. #birds #birdphotography

[Michael Sanders @HummingBird_The]

Here's a stunning little bird that's a new one for me: spotted flycatcher! I met this bird at Thursley Common this morning 🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

[Michael Sanders @HummingBird_The]

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! 🐉🪰😮 #insects #insectphotography

[Michael Sanders @HummingBird_The]

How gorgeous is this fledgling stonechat!! 😍🐦🪶. At Thursley Common yesterday. #birds #birdphotography

[Michael Sanders @HummingBird_The]

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 🐦❤️🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

[Michael Sanders @HummingBird_The]

There are a lot of young rabbits around at the moment, here's one I met at Unstead last weekend! 🐇🙂 #rabbits #wildlifephotography

[Michael Sanders @HummingBird_The]

Here're a pair of barn swallows collecting mud at Unstead last weekend. 🐦❤️🐦🪶 #birds #birdphotography

[Michael Sanders @HummingBird_The]

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! 🐦❤️ #birds #birdphotography

[Michael Sanders @HummingBird_The]

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. 🦌❤️

[Michael Sanders @HummingBird_The]

Here's one of the resident curlew at Thursley Common last week. There're a pair setting up camp near Pudmore Pond. 🐦🪶🙂 #birds #birdphotography

[Michael Sanders @HummingBird_The]

It's always lovely to see peregrine falcons soaring along the cliffs! (southern England, this morning). 🦅🪶😍 #birds #birdphotography

[Michael Sanders @HummingBird_The]

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. 🐦🐦🐦🐦🪶😀 #birds #birdphotography

[Michael Sanders @HummingBird_The]

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. 🐦🐦🐦🐦😍🪶 #birds #birdphotography

[Michael Sanders @HummingBird_The]

Spring's red kite, along Upload Road, Woldingham this morning. 🦅🙂 #birds #birdphotography

[Michael Sanders @HummingBird_The]

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! 😍🦅🪶🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰💀 #birds #birdphotography