The Common Gulls at the local park have been back for a few weeks, slowly building up in numbers to about a hundred today. I searched for ...

The Carrion Crow pair in the local park have fledged two young. One of them sat on a carpet of poplar fluff, looking sleepy, and unable to...

A lucky front shot of a male Mute Swan on a local park. He was with his polish variety partner, and ringed and approached me as I walked a...

In the low winter sun, this magpie was tree-topping, displaying her contrasting black and white plumage, a typical territory-owner behavio...

I've been wanting to take a photo of a Blackbird in this posture for a long time. Blackbirds do often cock their tails. When they alig...

The other day I watched a Collared Dove attacking a Woodpigeon. I was a bit puzzled by this bit of seemingly random aggression, as the W...

As I took the kids to school this morning, I noticed a couple of crows on the grass on the school grounds. One of them was hunched up and ...

The thrushes are now feeding chicks, and there is a sense of urgency when they look for food. They would be shy when not breeding, but now...

This morning a lively chorus of Blue Tits and Chaffinches alerted me to a hunting Sparrowhawk in the park. It flew over and landed on a br...

This young male blackbird (recognisable for its brownish wings and black smudges on its bill) sung its beautiful song in front of my house...

We have a visiting Coot in our local park. It is quite used to people and a good photographic subject. Coots dive for a few seconds - they...

A flock of about 100 common gulls winters in the park, they arrive at the end of September/October and are around most of the time until t...

Few sounds are more evocative to me than the song of the Greenfinch. It brings back memories of trying to work out bird songs from scratch...

We went to Walton Street market and car boot sale this morning and I couldn't help but notice the crowds of Carrion Crows. At least 50...