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This beauty was busy hunting with it's partner and noisy offspring.
Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
Wee Ganavan Nr Oban - Argyll
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Ardmucknish Bay - Scotland
Rock Pipit · Anthus petrosus
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There was plenty of activity in this small pond
Common Frog - Scientific name: Rana temporaria
Glencoe Visitor Centre - Scotland
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Abird often mistaken as a penguin. It would be quite some swim if one actually made it to the UK.
Razorbill - Alca Torda
RSPB Bempton Cliffs - Yorkshire
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Swift over Chasewater dam, Staffordshire. Very much a lucky shot but one I have been attempting for a long time.
The policy of Epping Forest is to leave dead trees to rot and fall where they stand. This provides a starting point for many food chains.
I got a fantastic e-mail from the BBC on Monday afternoon telling me that they were going to use one of my images on the Springwatch Unsprung program on Monday night.
It's not often you get Chris Packham to give critique on your photos, so when I got in from work that evening I eagerly watched.
I really liked it to start with and then said that the bird could do with being in the centre of the rising sun, If you look at the original I used the rule-of-thirds with the subject off centre to the left.
He gave it a mark of 6.1 out of ten, so I have posted a shot taken at the same time but re-composed with his suggestions, let me know what you think please.
From the archives... one of last year's youngsters. They seemed to have had a successful year this year as well - I again heard squeaky juvenile calls in the summer and currently, so long as it is dry, we are hearing adults calling most evenings.
While watching Springwatch this year I was surprised to hear Chris Packham say that he had not seen Spotted Flycatchers since childhood. The population has declined by 92% since his childhood (1967) but it still surprised me that he hadn't seen any. I too have noticed a massive decline here in the Pennines. They used to be common, and now they are not. But I still chance upon a breeding pair or two each year, and I see passage birds, usually juveniles in the autumn. I'm assuming the decline in southern England has been even more severe than here in the north. The causes of the decline have proved elusive but research suggests poor survival of juveniles may be the issue. There has been no significant change in nest success rates and the number of fledglings per nest shows no trend. Juvenile survival could be affected before migration, during migration, or on the African wintering grounds.