Waxwings
A tip-off that there was a flock of more than 100 settled in Gullane resulted in a trip down there ot have a go. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky when I set out, but by the time I got there, it was densely overcast, and by half way through getting a shoot in,…
Short-eared owls
Taken at the Musselburgh lagoons and Aberlady Nature Reserve.
Peregrines
Urban peregrines! Right at the foot of my road – didn’t even know there was an eyrie there. My neighbour heard them and pointed them out to me. Couldn’t get very close, so had to compromise with a crop sensor and x2 extender on my 100-400 mm lens. Rather higher ISO than ideal at a forced f11 wide open. Adult male on a high perch. One young still in the eyrie, and the other out on some superstructure. Pigeons all around them – don’t seem to recognise what they are.