Sam's

PHOTOPOETRY

Grey-headed Lapwing?! Surely not! A first for Britain (and second for Europe?!) appearing on bank holiday Monday, just a couple of hours...

I had missed out when a British first turned up in Aberlady Bay a while ago: I assumed it was a subspecies, for a start, and then it...

No need for a jury here! A very tame Harris’s Hawk, complete with jessies (or the eyelets, at least), gave me something of a shock as I...

Well, I suspect the jury might be out on this potential escapee... But today, 22nd April 2023, I couldn't resist nipping down to see this...

Back on familiar territory, I spent a couple of hours searching through the Eurasian Teal on the main pool at Campfield hoping to connect...

When I booked this holiday for one, I had visions of calm seas, sunny skies and whales galore – as well as a whole bunch of photogenic...

It appeared again on 27th March, albeit after a long wait, on a beautifully sunny evening - and then played silly buggers as it flew...

Rare swifts from abroad tend not to stay long - just a few hours at the most usually; to connect with one, you have to be at the right...

Mid-March saw the return of the local Barn Owl, or at least it started to appear far more regularly, and on the weekend of 17th-19th I...

On 11th March I got more shots of the Snow Goose (but nothing spectacular). Even better if anything, I managed to get good shots of Green...