Category: Nature Photography

  • Wearing The Crown

    Wearing The Crown

    This is a Crowned Crane – and would you just look at that hairstyle! Unlike other cranes, Crowned Cranes nest in trees (thank you, Google).

  • Glass Eyes

    Glass Eyes

    Just look at this ostriches eyes! They are the largest eyes of any animal on land. Ostriches really are quite exceptional birds.

  • The Secretary’s Nose

    The Secretary’s Nose

    This is the beak (or is it bill?) of a Secretary bird. This tall, long-legged bird usually lives in sub-Saharan Africa. Secretary birds are unusual in the fact that they hunt from the ground, rather than from the air like most birds of prey. In fact they much prefer walking to flying.

  • The World’s Best Feather Duster

    The World’s Best Feather Duster

    I am kicking off a week long bird theme today, with this shot of ostrich feathers. These feathers belong to a female red-necked ostrich, and believe it or not they are incredibly good at attracting dust – which is why it’s still common to sea ostrich-feather dusters for sale these days. That ostrich feathers aren’t…

  • The Squirrel on the Roof

    The Squirrel on the Roof

    This little chap found his (or her?) way onto our garage roof, and waited quite patiently whilst I fiddled around grabbing the camera, putting the right lens on, and ensuring both battery and memory card were inserted correctly before snapping this shot. Perhaps it taught me that I should be more prepared… although, in fairness…

  • Days Eye

    Days Eye

    Now here’s a daisy, a common flower in these parts – so common in fact that people call it a weed! Shame really, as daisies are quite pretty little flowers. What did this image teach me? To appreciate the small things in this world.

  • Robin

    Robin

    Another day, another bird photograph (though this will be the last one for a little while)… today we have a bright robin to enjoy. What did this image teach me? Robins are, scientifically speaking, part of the Old World Flycatcher family of birds – the Muscicapidae. So now you know.

  • Mrs Duck

    Mrs Duck

    This is yet another archive image (this pandemic has really caused me to take a lot fewer photographs than I usually would – so having a fairly large archive of potential images has been a bit of a bonus). What did this image teach me? To not underestimate some of my very early photography.

  • The Grey Gull

    The Grey Gull

    This month’s photos started with a bird on a post, and they’re going to end with a different bird on post… What did this image teach me? Shooting a grey bird against a very grey background can make for an interesting challenge during post-production.