Birds of Britain x 7

Bird photography isn’t something I excel at. No long lenses, no patience. But today, just so I can join in three whole challenges listed below, I offer you seven images. Not seven birds, please note. Just seven images.

My feature photo is of an egret and a heron studiously ignoring one another at our local nature reserve.

And my next is of a herring gull. Doubtless it’s a mug shot of him taken at the police station, as he helps police with their enquiries over the matter of the fish and chips snatched from a blameless pensioner eating his take-away fish dinner on the seafront.

The next two are familiar local residents: a robin posing for a Christmas card: and a house sparrow in reflective mood.

Back to the seaside. To the Farne Islands. Here is a puffin stretching his wings: and an irritated Arctic tern objecting to my possibly disturbing his young.

We’ll end where we (nearly) began: with two birds – cormorants in this case, ignoring one another at another local nature reserve.

For Becky’s Seven for September.

And Leanne and Elke‘s Monochrome Madness #16.

And IJ Khanewala’s Bird of the Week.

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Author: margaret21

I'm retired and live in North Yorkshire, where I walk , write, volunteer and travel as often as I can.

52 thoughts on “Birds of Britain x 7”

  1. So glad you warned me not to count at the start! And lovely to see an Arctic Tern – they have just gone onto the red list in the UK as they are now a threatened bird species 😦

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  10. Those are good bird photographs in my book… you got me to more attention to the birds when I was rehabilitating from knee surgery one in ‘18! Your commentary though makes the photos. Enjoy the day!

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  13. These are great bird images, despite your disclaimer! I really like the herring gull shot even though they’re not my favourite birds, and your comment about him made me smile 😀 My other favourite was the puffin – great capture!

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  18. For all that you say you don’t like gulls you’ve got a great shot of one there. But my favourite are the cormorants. They look like an old couple after a tiff. “Not speaking to you.” “Not speaking to you either. So there!!” 😁

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