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Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)

Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) Male doing wing flaps.

Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)

Lesser Rhea (Rhea pennata garleppi)

I went out early this morning, and expected a clear sky for the sunrise. However, the weatherman was wrong. It was overcast and foggy instead. I could barely get my phone to focus on anything through my Diascope, but eventually it lifted just enough to fiddle around with a few shots. I was...

Lesser Scaups (Aythya affinis) Male and female with an american coot in the foreground.

Lesser Rheas (Rhea pennata garleppii)

These long-legged beauties can be found in their thousands in Kenyas incredible rift valley lakes. Most of the Rift Valley lakes are alkaline and have blooms of blue-green algae on which the flamingos feed. They feed by siphoning the algae with their incredible curved beaks, and the algae in...

Lesser Scaups (Aythya affinis)

Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)

Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) Male.

Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) Female.

One of my 111 records in my Butterfly-watching.

I heard him an hour before I saw him. After spending about an hour and a half in a hide. I went for a walk and stopped at the tree where he was making the racket. 10 minutes of looking and I found him

Lesser Elaenia

Mating pair. Male had presented the female with the large centipede just beforehand.

Male bird (ringed) in mixed breeding colony (10-12 pairs) with Jackdaws and Rollers.

This duck was part of small group of Lesser Scaup, Ring-billed and Northern Shoveler ducks. This was on a small lake that for the last two has not been popular with migrants. I am glad to see them return.

A Lesser Kiskadee sitting on a wire in Amazonas, Brazil.

One of my first photos

Redpoll near the first hide at Cors Dyffi Oswestry Project in Mid-Wales.