'Painting images with light, moments framed with love'
 
 
Birds In Flight
Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) - Marshside, Southport (RSPB)
Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) - Marshside, Southport
Swallow (Hirundo rustica) - Marshside
Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) - Marshside, Southport
 
Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus) - Martin Mere (WWT)
 
Mallard (female) - Anas platyrhynchos
 

 

Great Black-backed Gull - Larus marinus

I recently watched one of these gulls chase a Wigeon Duck, in flight, for approximately five minutes, before its capture. The speed the gull maintained, in its pursuit, is what was so surprising!

 

 

 
Black-tailed Godwit - Limosa limosa
 

Lapwing - Vanellus vanellus

 
Grey Heron - Ardea cinerea
 
Black-tailed Godwit - Limosa limosa
 
Oystercatcher - Haematopus ostralegus
 
Curlew - Numenius arquata
 
Whooper Swan - (Cygnus cygnus)
 
Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus ) - Breeding colours; Marshside, Southport, April 2009
 
 
 
 
Shelduck - (Tadorna tadorna)
 
Lapwing - Vanellus vanellus
 
Cormorant - January 2010
 
Bittern (Botaurus stellaris) - February 2010
 
Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) - March 2010
 
Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) - March 2010
 
Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) - March 2010
 
Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) - April 2010
 
Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) - April 2010
 
Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) - April 2010