Category Archives: water birds

Baby Gulls

July 11, 2014 by Words | 7 Comments

If you’re reading this you’ll have noticed that I’ve been playing around with the look of the site. It’s all somewhat experimental at the moment and it may yet revert back to what it was before. Either way, expect some further tweaks.

Meanwhile here’s a short sequence of the young herring gulls on one of the terraced green roofs at the University of Brighton, Falmer. They’re not quite ready to fly, though they have been spotted jumping an inch or so into the air. Another week or so will probably do it.

Herring gull chick

Herring gull chick

Herring gull chick

Herring gull chick

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 400mm f/5.6L USM lens.

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Monday Pond Post

July 7, 2014 by Words | 6 Comments

I seem to have been even more intermittent with posts than I intended, but to be honest I’ve not photographed much that I haven’t posted a hundred times before. Still, time to get things moving again for at least a day before the semi-finals kick in (my pick for the final Brazil v Holland). As the title says, this is a pond post featuring some of the regular inhabitants at Falmer.

These two ducks, for example… taking turns standing on a submerged rock.

Duck

Duck

The greylag goslings are growing fast. The first clutch are barely distinguishable from the adults, but this second group still have a fair amount of cuteness factor.

Greylag goslings

The closing sequence is of one of the visitors to the pond (the ducks and geese are resident birds), but it’s a regular. The heron appreciates the thriving fish population and pops in for an early morning snack every now and then.

heron

heron

heron

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 400mm f/5.6L USM lens.

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Three Very Different Birds

July 1, 2014 by Words | 2 Comments

As the title says, today features three very different birds. Just one photo of each (the World Cup is taking its toll on editing time), startling with a fledgling green woodpecker, spotted early this morning on the grass area by Falmer Pond.

fledgling green woodpecker

The second photo was taken early this evening along the Undercliff walk at Rottingdean. It’s a rock pipit striding out along the edge of the sea wall.

Rock pipit

Being Rottingdean, there are nearly always fulmars about. This is my favourite of many photos taken as they flew along the sides of the cliffs. You can really see the tube-nose on this one (click image to enlarge).

fulmar

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 400mm f/5.6L USM lens.

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