Life long birder, naturalist and wildlife photographer since the early 80s. Professionally shooting commercial and beauty for a wide variety of clients.
Wakefield West Yorkshire
Joined February 2015
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Catching up on edits while the storm is raging outside. This swallow was flying low over the machair on North Uist earlier this year and appears to be checking out my Z9 with 600mm f/4 TC VR S 😉
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#hebrides #summer #migration
ALT Swallow in flight looking at the camera
Mmmm, dung flies. Yummy!
Spotted sandpiper taking lunch at Nostell Priory, Yorkshire. Local twitch just 1.5miles from home.
📷 Z7ii with 600mm f/4 TC VRS.
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ALT spotted sandpiper feeding on dung flies
Grey plover on the Wadden Sea, #Texel. Not common and certainly not approachable. This was a fly by white we were photographing the godwits
📷 Z9 with 600mm f/4 TC VRS
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ALT grey plover in flight
Redshank arriving on the mud as the tide receded on the Wadden Sea, #Texel.
📷 Z9 w 600mm f/4 TC VRS
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ALT redshank coming into land in Texel
Golden plover looking splendid in the autumn sunshine on #Texel.
📷 Z9 with 600mm f/4 TC VRS
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ALT winter plumage golden plover
Barnacle goose alighting in the coastal fields of #Texel. Huge numbers of these birds were present last week.
📷 Z9 with 600mm f/4 TC VRS
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#Netherlands #dutchbirding #wildfowl
ALT barnacle goose alighting
Bar-tailed godwit threat posture on the Waddend Sea, Texel. Very grumpy birds, always squabbling.
📷 Z9 with 600mm f/4 TC VRS.
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#Texel #shorebirds #waders #migration
ALT Bar-tailed godwit in threat posture
This very pale commom buzzard looked superb in the overcast light. Seen near De Cocksdorp, #Texel
📷 Z9 with 600mm f/4 TC VRS
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ALT pale morph common buzzard
Pectoral sandpiper flexing its wings at Adwick Washlands yesterday.
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ALT pectoral sandpiper wing flexing
A skylark greets the sunrise on North Uist, Outer Hebrides.
📷 Z9 and 600mm f/4 TC VRS
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#birdingscotland #islandlife #hebrides #sunrise #songbirds
ALT a skylark singing from a fencepost at dawn on North Uist
The Chesterfield red-back shrike finally gave itself up despite the almost hurricane conditions. I had to take the lenshood off to try and reduce the buffeting I was getting and steady the lens.
📷 Z9 with 600mm f/4 TC VRS and 2xTC
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ALT immature red-backed shrike on wires
The Freiston wryneck was so very confiding and performed for the onlookers. It spent all of its time on the ground scoffing the local ants, so no perched shots for me on this occasion.
📷 Z9 with 600mm f/4TC VRS
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ALT wryneck on the ground feeding on ants
A windswept curlew sandpiper probes the machair at Borve on South Berneray.
📷 Z9 with 600mm f/4 TC VRS
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#outerhebrides #shorebirds #waders
ALT curlew sandpiper feeding on the machair.
Not so many migrants at Spurn yesterday, but did catch up with pied flycatcher and a few splendid wheatear.
Z9 with 600mm f/4 TC VRS
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#AutumnVibes #migfest #birdphotography – at Kilnsea, England
ALT autumn wheatear on fence post
A good sprinkling of migrants at Spurn yesterday including this pied flycatcher at Cliff farm.
📷 Z9 with 600mm f/4 TC VRS
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ALT pied flycatcher at Spurn.
Lift off! A whinchat taking flight from gorse, also known as whin, from which the bird gets its English name. This is one from Bempton earlier this week.
ALT whinchat taking flight.
Bath time! In this hot weather, we all need to cool off. This robin was having a whale of a time in a woodland puddle.
📷 Z9 with 400 2.8 TC VRS
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#birdbath #summersplash #bathtime
ALT robin bathing in a woodland puddle
I finally made the 3hr trip to Gloucestershire and I'm so glad I did. What a bird! The long-tailed shrike put on a superb show for just 6 of us in the afternoon.
📷 Z9 with 600mm f/4 TC VRS
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ALT long-tailed shrike on elder spike
The waderfest continues at Blacktoft with lots of black-tailed godwits present at the moment.
📷 Z9 with 600mm f/4 TC VRS and internal 1.4x engaged.
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#shorebirds #waders #Blacktoft #yorkshirebirds
ALT Black-tailed godwit feeding
At least 8 spotted redshank at Blacktoft Sands yesterday, with a couple coming close to the hide. Very different feeding technique to common redshank.
📷 Z9 with 600mm f/4 TC VRS with internal TC1.4 engaged
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