Shelduck babies..............................................

Oooooooooooooooooooooooo

Guillemots [Uria aalge]

The UK's coasts have many stretches of sheer cliffs where seabirds breed and the guillemot is one of the most numerous birds in the great 'seabird cities'. It comes to land only to nest, spending the rest of its life at sea, where it is vulnerable to oil spills. Dark brown and white, not as black as the similar razorbill, it has a 'bridled' form with a white ring round the eye and stripe behind it.

Steller's Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) ????????????????????????????????

Photographed at the International  Centre for Birds of Prey, Newent, Gloucestershire.

Tufted Duck male

Tufted Duck female (Aythya fuligula)

Just posing...............

The best

Common Crane (Grus grus)

Garganey (Anas querquedula)

Waking up.

The garganey is a scarce and very secretive breeding duck in the UK. It is smaller than a mallard and slightly bigger than a teal. The male is most easily recognised with a broad white stripe over the eye. In flight it shows a pale blue forewing. It feeds by 'dabbling'.

Filmed at Cannop Ponds, FOD.

Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo)

Taken when it was half around the sun.

Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)

Photographed in Slimbridge WWT, an american breed.

Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus)

Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata)

The Curlew has a haunted call, you can hear it where I live.

Puffin [Auks] [Fratercula arctica]

I am not taking photogaphs very much, because of my son. But I have a few from longer period, I hope that is alright?

Common Seal or Harbour Seal [Phoca vitulina]

Flash back.........................................................[partially]

Redshank (Tringa totanus)

 Photographed while looking at the sun