Although most of the King Penguins, Aptenodytes patagonicus, on the Falkland Islands are found in the breeding colony at Volunteer Point, East Falkland, single birds
Category: Birds

A solitary Macaroni Penguin, Eudyptes chrysolophus, standing in a Southern Rockhopper Penguin colony on Sea Lion Island, in the Falkland Islands. Macaroni Penguins mostly breed

I was lucky enough to spend two weeks on the Falkland Islands in late November – early December 2022. I visited four islands, plus the

A Blue Tit, Cyanistes caeruleus, perched on a twig with hawthorn berries.

African Hoopoe feeding chick in Amboseli National Park, Kenya.

A beautiful male Eurasian Bullfinch in winter, perched on a Fuchsia shrub in my front garden.

A few Common Guillemots / Murres from the Breeding colony on the Farne Islands off Northumbria.

A flock of Dunlin, Calidris alpina, flying above the sea on a winter day with low light.

A moody treatment of a Jackdaw, Corvus monedula, perched on a branch.

Two European Honey Buzzards showing very different plumages, on migration over the Strait of Gibraltar.

A group of White Storks flying through a Wind Farm whose turbines have been stopped.

A male Eurasian Sparrowhawk, soaring above the Sierra de la Plata, Andalucía, southern Spain.