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23/10/2026

14/10/2026

I've watched many kingfisher birds in an attempt to get a decent portrait over the years. On a river close to home and with the colours of autumn as a backdrop I managed these yesterday.

06/10/2026

Cliff life

30/09/2026

A scruffy looking Iberian Green Woodpecker during the moult

24/09/2026

A female Red Footed Falcon that visited Ireland earlier this year. With so many people going to see it I nearly didn't go, but I waited and am glad I eventually went.

22/09/2026

The third thing I was reminded of on this latest Lynx trip was that just because the sun has gone down or not yet risen it doesn't mean all is lost. It's tricky without the fast lenses, but I still managed to get photographs that I like. This one was taken around 8 minutes after sunset.

17/09/2026

The second thing that stood out for me when photographing these rare cats is that in both winter and summer the overwhelming bulk of the opportunities came in very low light conditions, this summer 5 minutes after sunset. So even though there wasn't much time to change to a shorter lens option I needed to be using the widest aperture that I had and even then with a slow shutter speed, ISO's os 12800 or more were a reality.

15/09/2026

Having done a trip to photograph the rare and endangered Iberian Lynx in Winter I returned with the lads this time in summer. Three things stood out on this trip, the first is that sightings can be at varied distances, often with no opportunity to change to a shorter lens option. I didn't mind the photos I got this time as the facial details were nice to capture.

10/09/2026

Just a blackbird, but the late light glowing through the beak contrasting with the dark body captured my eye

08/09/2026

Some from my recent travels