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  1. At last

    At last

    Slavonian grebe in breeding plumage, something I have been wanting to see for over 20 years
    • Keith Dickinson
    • Media item
    • podiceps auritus rspb fairburn ings slavonian grebe yorkshire
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  2. You ain't seen me!

    You ain't seen me!

    Cattle egret in reeds
    • Keith Dickinson
    • Media item
    • bubulcus ibis cattle egret rspb fairburn ings yorkshire
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  3. Home sweet home?

    Home sweet home?

    Nesting European Spoonbills, the birds were photographed from a footpath some distance away.
    • Keith Dickinson
    • Media item
    • fairburn ings platalea leucorodia rspb spoonbill yorkshire
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  4. Gt crested grebe

    Gt crested grebe

    A lone bird just acquiring full summer plumage
    • Keith Dickinson
    • Media item
    • great crested crebe leeds podiceps cristatus roundhay park waterfowl yorkshire
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  5. Triple takeoff!

    Triple takeoff!

    Three of six whooper swans taking off from the lake
    • Keith Dickinson
    • Media item
    • cygnus cygnus leeds roundhay park waterfowl whooper swan yorkshire
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  6. Dunnock

    Dunnock

    The dunnock was sat on a branch watching me, showed no sign of any worry as I took the photo.
    • Keith Dickinson
    • Media item
    • accentor dunnock leeds liverpool canal prunella modularis yorkshire
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  7. No meals today

    No meals today

    A sparrowhawk that visits the garden, wasn't quite quick enough to catch a goldfinch today
    • Keith Dickinson
    • Media item
    • accipiter nisus eurasian sparrowhawk leeds uk urban garden yorkshire
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  8. Common Buzzard

    Common Buzzard

    One of several birds seen soaring in the sun
    • Keith Dickinson
    • Media item
    • buteo buteo common buzzard nosterfield local nature reserve raptor uk yorkshire
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  9. Willow Warbler

    Willow Warbler

    A willow warbler in full song.
    • Keith Dickinson
    • Media item
    • nosterfield local nature reserve phylloscopus trochilus uk willow warbler yorkshire
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  10. Chocolate Mining Bee

    Chocolate Mining Bee

    My first sighting of this species of mining bee in my garden, sat on a tulip leaf
    • Keith Dickinson
    • Media item
    • adrena scotica garden leeds mining bee urban wildlife yorkshire
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Invertebrates
  11. We have take-off.

    We have take-off.

    A male sparrowhawk that heard the sound of my camera shutter and flew out of the garden. I have used ON1 to sharpen the photo given the high ISO
    • Keith Dickinson
    • Media item
    • accipiter nisus bird garden leeds raptor sparrowhawk yorkshire
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  12. Follow the leader!

    Follow the leader!

    Whooper swans departing the wetland
    • Keith Dickinson
    • Media item
    • cygnus cygnus fairburn ings rspb whooper swan yorkshire
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  13. Sheltering from the rain

    Sheltering from the rain

    A male sparrowhawk taking shelter under a branch in my garden
    • Keith Dickinson
    • Media item
    • accipiter nisus garden bird leeds sparrowhawk yorkshire
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  14. Twenty Plumed Moth

    Twenty Plumed Moth

    A micro moth resting on the kitchen wall, it is less than a centimetre across.
    • Keith Dickinson
    • Media item
    • alucita hexadactyla leeds micro moth twenty plumed moth yorkshire
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Invertebrates
  15. Waxwing

    Waxwing

    Another shot of one of the couple of dozen that turned up towards the end of 2023 and stayed until 2024.
    • Keith Dickinson
    • Media item
    • bohemian waxwing bombycilla garrulus leeds uk waxwing yorkshire
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  16. Waxwing

    Waxwing

    Bohemian waxwing not too far from home
    • Keith Dickinson
    • Media item
    • bohemian waxwing bombycilla garrulus leeds waxwing yorkshire
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  17. The toes have it

    The toes have it

    Moorhen on the landing stage in Roundhay Park
    • Keith Dickinson
    • Media item
    • gallinula chloropus leeds moorhen roundhay park uk upper lake yorkshire
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  18. Time stood still

    Time stood still

    A little grebe taking a rest instead of constantly diving for food
    • Keith Dickinson
    • Media item
    • leeds little grebe roundhay park tachybaptus ruficollis uk yorkshire
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  19. Sitting Pretty

    Sitting Pretty

    Winter plumage black-headed gull
    • Keith Dickinson
    • Media item
    • black-headed gull chroicocephalus ridibundus gull leeds roundhay park uk yorkshire
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  20. A good drying day!

    A good drying day!

    A great cormorant holding out its wings
    • Keith Dickinson
    • Media item
    • great cormorant leeds phalacrocorax carbo roundhay park yorkshire
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  21. reed warbler

    reed warbler

    a juvenile i think
    • Prestdj
    • Media item
    • eurasian reed warbler acrocephalus scirpaceus st aidan's rspb reserve yorkshire
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  22. house martin

    house martin

    so fun to watch
    • Prestdj
    • Media item
    • house martin delichon urbicum mytholmroyd yorkshire
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  23. sand martin

    sand martin

    amazing that this one sat on the wires above the garden amongst all the house martins flying around , great garden bird
    • Prestdj
    • Media item
    • mytholmroyd riparia riparia sand martin yorkshire
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  24. tawny owl

    tawny owl

    not a bird i see in daytime so very happy
    • Prestdj
    • Media item
    • mytholmroyd tawny owl strix aluco yorkshire
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  25. grey heron

    grey heron

    early morning on river calder
    • Prestdj
    • Media item
    • ardea cinerea grey heron mytholmroyd yorkshire
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Britain & Europe
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