More than 40 in the house tonight at Christleton Village Hall for Chester RSPB & my Birding on the doorstep.

#birdingtalks #cgbirding

More than 40 in the house tonight at Christleton Village Hall for Chester RSPB & my Birding on the doorstep.

#birdingtalks #cgbirding

I’m at Nuneaton Bird Club tonight presenting North West Year, my talk on what I like to get up to in Lancashire, Cheshire and North Wales each year. 25 in the house

#birding #cgbirding #birdingtalks

A cracking sunrise at Gibraltar Point yesterday as the rising tide pushed all the gulls off beach

#cgbirding #gibraltarpoint #sunrise

I’ve always found crows and ravens a nightmare to exposure correctly, so it felt good getting this Raven action shot as it carried off this sea urchin from the beach.

#iceland #cgbirding #cgwildlife #birding #raven #

I watched a couple of Glaucous Gull at Grundarfjörður harbour catching Starfish and devouring them. Great theatre.

#cgbirding #cgwildlife #iceland #glaucousgull #starfish #grundarfjörður #birding #wildlifespectacle #gulls

A real privilege watching the bubble feeding techniques of these Humpback Whales off Reykjavik this week. We had at least 8 individuals and three Minke Whales. The weather was kind too and a real wildlife spectacular

#cgbirding #cgwildlife #iceland #humpbackwhale #reykjavík

I never got to see the Seaforth Song Sparrow, but see one today at Thornwick Bay in the gulley behind the café. Missing for long periods of time in the brambles and nettles I managed to get a few shots from across the gulley. #cgbirding #ukrarebirds #rarebirds #songsparrow #yorkshire #birding

With good portraits in the bag, I thought I’d push the camera to get some flights shots in fading flat light at the Woodchat Shrike.

Canon R7
EF 500 f4 IS MK1
EF 2x TC MK3
ISO 8000
1/2700th sec at f8

#cgbirding
#ukrarebirds
#cheshire
#birding

Always a pleasure to discover a day roosting Nightjar, especially an obliging bird that opens its eyes #cgbirding #sweden #öland #ottenby #nightjar #birding

A Thrush Nightingale belts out its mellifluous song, taken recently on Öland, Sweden #cgbirding #Öland #sweden #ottenby #birding

A White-tailed Eagle flies in off the ice and prepares to raid the food output for them at @naturumgetteron

#cgbirding #eagle #sweden #frozen #birding #birdingatwork

The end of a perfect Caribbean day, contemplating our return to the UK after a fabulous fortnight on Tobago 🇹🇹 resting, birding, rum-drinking & exploring

#tobago #tobago2025 #caribbean #sunset #beach #sea #cgbirding

This White-tailed Eagle I photographed at @naturumgetteron was unwillingly to share the food. Oh and the size difference between it and Hooded Crows.

#cgbirding #eagle #sweden #birdingatwork #birding

A White-tailed Eagle takes takes flight from the frozen waters of Getterons Nature Reserve, Varberg, Sweden.

#sweden #cgbirding #birdingatwork #eagle #birdingsweden

Castara Sunset Tobago #Explore 19th Feb 2025 Off out to dinner at the beautiful village of Castara on Tobago and was struck by the setting sun over the Caribbean

Occasionally I get to photograph things other than birds. Here is a sunset over the Caribbean taken from Castara, Tobago 🇹🇹 last month

#Caribbean #sunset #cgbirding #g5x

A Spectacled Eider image from last week that was a massive crop and not particularly sharp. Played with the watercolour feature in photoshop and I’m pleased with the ‘rescue’

#brileider #spectacledeider #texel #photoshop #cgbirding #birding #dutchbirding

I get to travel a lot for work, sometimes I get spare time for birding. Today I am on Texel, Netherlands 🇳🇱 with a Spectacled Eider, a truly amazing record of a great looking iconic bird. 366 days ago I was in Falsterbo alone with a Stellar’s Eider. Two superb birds.

#birdingrep #cgbirding #birding

Always inquisitive but wary too male Barred Ant Shrike were not as easy as I was lead to believe. Fortunately as it is usually does Patience Pays Off.

Canon R7with EF 500 f4 MK I with 1.4x TC III ETTL at 0.0
Shutter 1/250th
Aperture f10
ISO 400

#cgbirding #birding #neotropicalbirding

There are 6 Hummingbird species on #Tobago and 5 of them were new to me. I managed to get some short of shot of all of them. This species, White-tailed Sabrewing was the difficult one photographed at the rainforest edge.

#tobago2025 #cgbirding #hummingbird #rainforest #neotropicalbirds #birding

One of my main targets on #tobago2025 was to see Blue-backed hopefully at a lek. However I only managed to see a single bird during the morning but managed a few images.

Canon R7 with RF 100-500 IS
ISO 8000
1/125th sec at f10
##neotropicalbirds #cgbirding #rainforest #tobago #birdingphotography

Another new hummingbird during #tobago2025 was this Black-throated Mango. I saw lots of them but photo ops were scarce.

Canon R7 with RF100-500 f7.1
Lens at 363mm
ISO 200”
F13 @ 1/640th sec no flash

#hummingbird #cgbirding #birding #neotropicalbirds

I didn’t have as many photo opportunities to photograph hummingbirds in Tobago 🇹🇹 as I had in Costa Rica 🇨🇷 but still managed 6 new species including this beautiful Ruby Topaz at a feeder hanging from a beach bar

#tobago #tobago2025 #hummingbird #cgbirding #birding

Two new species of hummingbird for me at this feeder with Copper-rumped Hummingbird & Rufous-breasted Hermit bit at a feeder outside a bar in Castara, Tobago

#tobago2025 #tobago #hummingbird #cgbirding #birding

I have just had two weeks in the beautiful Caribbean island of Tobago. Green-rumped Parrotlet is very noisy and sometimes difficult to find this one showed well from my room in Castara.

#cgbirding #tobago2025 #twentyyearsdigital #birding #neotropicalbirds

It’s been a long time since I last pointed a lens at a White-billed Diver, so it was great to photograph this one up in Druridge Country Park today.

#birdsinflight #cgbirding #ukrarebirds #birding #rarebirdphotography

A Green-crowned Brilliant female photographed at Bosque de Paz Costa Rica in 2016. For this shot I used off camera flash using my Wimberley flash bracket.

Canon 1DX with EF 500 f4 MK I
ISO 1600 f8 at 1/1600th second
ETTL -2.6 stops

#costarica #twentyyearsdigital #cgbirding #birding

A White-necked Jacobin taken in 2016 at @rancho_naturalista. It has been a while since I last pointed a lens at a hummingbird.

Canon 1DX with EF 500 f4 IS USM MK I
ISO 3200
Shutter 1/1600th at F5.6 & ETTL
#hummingbird #costarica #twentyyearsdigital #cgbirding #birding #neotropicalbirding

Indian Paradise Flycatcher white morph taken in the Western Ghat Mountains of Goa in 2012 I photographed these several times but never right out in the open.

#goa #india #westernghats #indianparadiseflycatcher #cgbirding #indianbirds #twentyyearsdigital

I’m fortunate to have had some great sessions with Bee-eaters during my #twentyyearsdigital the Blue-tailed performed for me in Bundala NP, Sri Lanka 2018

Canon 1DX + EF 500/4 with 1.4x TC
ISO 400 1/500th sec at F8

#srilanka #cgbirding #beeeater #birding #asianbirding