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Rose-coloured Starlings

There was an invasion of Rose-coloured Starlings to Western Europe in June and several made it to Norfolk. This one was at Sprowston in Norwich^.

Getting closer to nature in the garden.

Getting closer to nature in the garden. Feeding the Wood Mice and low flying birds of prey in the noticeably clearer air.

Wood Mouse

Common Buzzard

Red Kite

Young Tawny Owls in Norwich

Young Tawny Owls (Strix aluco). Several early starts were eventually rewarded by having the youngsters in the open.

The wintering Eastern Yellow Wagtail in Norfolk

Eastern Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla tschutschensis tschutschensis) Sedgeford Norfolk winter 2019-2020

Black-throated Thrush at Whipsnade Bedfordshire UK December 2019

Black-throated Thrush (Turdus atrogularis) Whipsnade Bedfordshire UK December 2019

Black-throated Thrush (Turdus atrogularis) Whipsnade Bedfordshire UK December 2019

Suffolk birds so far this winter

Suffolk birds so far this winter...

Black-necked Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) Felixstowe, Suffolk UK December 2019

Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) Shingle Street, Suffolk UK December 2019

Norfolk birds this autumn & winter

Norfolk birds this autumn & winter....

Rough-legged Buzzard (Buteo lagopus) Wells, Norfolk UK November 2019

Isabelline Wheatear (Oenanthe isabellina) Cley, Norfolk UK November 2019

Olympus E-M1X

Am I going to follow the herd? My back tells me I should.

Olympus have loaned me a Olympus E-M1X plus a M.Zuiko Digital ED 300mm F4 IS PRO to play with for a couple of weeks.

I'm still grappling with the new array of buttons. And there are a lot of them. In the process of picking up the camera I've somehow managed to take twenty or so shots, before even looking through the viewfinder. I don't feel I'm in control of the camera yet, but then I have used Canon for at least the last thirty years so its going to take some time.

Next problem was viewing the results. I'm still using a prehistoric computer with an old photoshop installed. It won't even open the DNG files converted from the Olympus RAW Files (ORF).

My back though is happy.

Our youngest crawled up to this Eurasian Sparrowhawk

Our youngest crawled up to this Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) and took some photos of it with his Olympus Tough.

British Wildlife Photography Awards 2019

Delighted to announce one of my photographs of a Common Swift drinking won the Animal Behaviour category in the British Wildlife Photography Awards for 2019. See https://bwpawards.org/winners2019