Samburu people

We stayed in South Horr for a few days, the local tribes are really friendly and as the photos show they wear very colourful clothes and massive necklaces.

Grevy's zebra

Probably the highlight of my visit to Africa was this pair of Grevy's zebra, this desert species is becoming increasingly rare and there is believed to be only around 2500 left with numbers decreasing rapidly.  These fine animals are taller and more graceful than common zebra with much more delicate stripes.  The ears are larger and used for signalling as well as listerning in all directions, note one of these is listerning behind while watching us.

first pic uploaded after 5 attempts!

Africa update

Having trouble posting pics, so this is a test post featuring the sought after Quail-plover.

Lake Turkana Africa

I have recently got back from at few days staying near Lake Turkana in Africa, I only had basic camera gear with me but managed a few decent shots. Birds are from top to bottom: Tawny eagle, Somali Courser, Olive thrush, Nubian woodpecker, Kori Bustard, eastern-chanting gosshawk, crowned plover and buff-creasted bustard.

Scarce emerald damselfly

Numerous in all of the sea-clubrush filled ditches east of Burnham-on-Crouch

Norfolk Hawker

Norfolk hawker at Strumpshaw Fen, taken with the canon 300mm f4, I really need to get a true macro lens.

Nightjar Norfolk

I have spent a lot of time in the forests of Norfolk this spring concentrating on getting to know one of my favorite bird the nightjar. Its been productive as I have found five different birds sitting on wood piles. This one is a male, his mate sits on a log a few metres away. Hopefully she will be nesting soon, I was thinking she is a bit late but first egg dates are apparently mid-may to mid-July so there's still plenty of time.

woodcock and Dotterel

The recent Dotterel at Kessingland. Woodcock over Swaffham Heath.

hobby

hobby about to stoop on a dragonfly

oriental pratincole in Lincs

First record for Lincs

Booming Bittern

A couple of pics of the booming bittern at Minsmere from a couple of weeks ago. it boomed 4 times during one of my recent all day visits. Unfortunatley it never faced the hide whilist booming. On this occaision it was only a few metres from the hide hide, these pics are uncropped with full frame camera.

Lesvos 2010

Just back from a week in lesbos,i have 50 gig of photos to process, but here is the first one I did, a glossy ibis showing some nice colours.

Teal at Salthouse

Camargue Feb 2010

Slender-billed gull, more Camargue pics to come

black kite Gigrin

fieldfare in my garden

had 40 fieldfares in the garden but terrible light.

cley birds in the snow

yellow-crowned night heron

Fort Desoto Beach Florida

Mediterranean and ring-billed gulls at Rossi's

Easy to photograph but hard to get a decent background on these.

reddish egret

Still going through some of my Florida images and posted this one on birdguides and it looked terrible, checking to see if its as bad here.

Ring-necked duck

A bit closer and better light today

Jay and diver

As I said I've been out a couple of times since the move, here is a acoron collecting jay i found near great Yarmouth and this red-throated diver which I found fishing on the tideline at Salthouse, I followed it for about half a mile but sttruggled to keep up with it of it, eventually I got too tired to follow it any further.

Bald eagle

This Bald eagle was attracted to tern and pelican activity attracted to a school of fish. This osprey made quite a determined attack as you can see.

black skimmer

Taking a bath on Fort Myers beach

Farne Islnds puffin