I’m not a birder or a twitcher or anything, but I like birds, and have taken a passing interest in them ever since getting drawn into the expensive habit of feeding wild birds. My favourites are the raptors and I can thoroughly recommend a day out doing the falconry experience at one of the various bird of prey centres around the country. Birds make good targets for the camera and they certainly help to hone the skills. A big lens helps!
Whooper swans
On Loch Eye
Waxwings, 15 January 2023
… plus a bonus fieldfare, taken at Bankhead roundabout, Sighthill.
Waxwings, 11 November 2023
At the dual carriageway at Sighthill!
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,…
Water of Leith, 19 November 2025
Balgreen to Dean Village.