Salvonian Grebe in the Scottish Highlands
With the influx of good weather I went up to the Highlands up for a few days to photograph the very beautiful Slovenian grebe. These are one of Britain’s rarest breeding birds and they return to Loch Ruthven to breed every year. Here are just a few of the images taken; I will post some more later. I am just a little rushed at the moment and haven’t had the chance to process many of my images.
read moreHWB Wild BIrd Photography Competition Success
I am very please to announce that I have had an Honorable Mention is the prestigious HBW World Bird Photography Competition with my image “Extreme Foraging”. The competition attracted 10,754 entries form 128 countries around the world. You can see the wining images at...
read moreBrown Hares
I have been watching the local brown hare populations here in the Scottish Borders for a number of years. To study these little mammals you need to put the hours in. Over the last few weeks the crops in the fields I have been watching have been getting a little deep. This means the hares will move on into another fields which have only just been planted but has the succulent shoots that the hares like to feed on, So the field I refer to and has had little or no activity in it most of the year, now has hare activity as the crops grow, the hares have moved into this field to...
read moreHouse Martins return to the Scottish Borders
The house martins have returned to the Scottish Borders to breed again this year. The story of this little birds is astonishing. The birds breed here in the UK and then fly down to the African continent to Zimbabwe, Kenya and Tanzania for the winter, a journey of over 4000 miles and amazingly they return to the nest site that they were born in. They tend to nest in barns and out buildings and of course the eves of houses These little birds’ area very approachable during the collection of mud for nest building but not so much after pair bonding has taken place when they are very difficult to...
read moreMelrose Dippers
I went back to the River Tweed at Melrose to have another go at the dippers that live on the river. They are obviously sitting on a second brood of eggs as the adults would change over the egg sitting periodically. The first brood are still in the area and begging for food from the active adult. There are a couple of herons around the area and the adults get a little agitated when one comes close to the young dippers. Here are a few images from the...
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