carlmckienaturephotography

                                                North of Scotland-May-2018 A few images from a recent trip to the far north of Mainland Scotland, which had mixed results for the target species(sandwich terns), but proved quite fruitful for a number of others, including Gadwall, Oystercatcher and a number of other waders-ducks and sea birds                                                                                                                        ...

                                  Barn owls and Bluebells  May 2018                                                                                                                                                            https://www.carlmckienaturephotography.com/shop   

                     April 2018 Snakes head fritillaries in Oxfordshire My first visit this year to the meadow where the Snake’s head fritillaries grow, this time last year there were several hundred flowers out, only a handful in bloom yesterday evening. But with warm weather forecast there are plenty of buds that will open over the next few days.                                                                        https://www.carlmckienaturephotography.com/                                                                               ...

                               Mid March-2018,Brown hares in Suffolk A few more hares from the weekend, this time a wet day in Suffolk,  the hares where still around  but spent a lot of time sitting out the heavy showers                                                                     https://www.carlmckienaturephotography.com/                                                                         https://www.facebook.com/carlmckie0/       

                                   European Brown hare, 09-03-2018 Its Obviously March again when images of hares start appearing, "mad March", little truth in that as they actually box and chase each other most months, its just more often in spring and more obvious with grass and crops being short  The images here where taken in Oxfordshire,not an easy place to get photos of these creatures as there numbers are very low and access to the land is difficult to acquire (problems in past years when illegal hare coursing was a problem), and maybe because of this numbers are kept low deliberately by keepers.   More hares over the weekend over in Suffolk , which holds a good population and doesn't seem to have had the problems on the same scale as other counties, so access to land is easier. https://www.carlmckienaturephotography.com/ https://www.carlmckienaturephotog...

                                             Water rails in Gloucestershire  A few quick images of a water rail,from earlier this month.I was actually looking for Cranes around Somerset,which where released a few years ago as part of the Great crane project and now breeding successfully in the area. Numbers are still in the tens rather than the hundreds,so tracking them down can be a bit challenging, and a good amount of patience is required, so lucky for me while waiting for them to turn up this water rail came to the edge of a near by reed bed,and started prodding around for food ,and was surprisingly bold.These small birds are more often heard, and  spend most of there time skulking deep in amongst the reeds                                         ...

                                                    Somerset coast, January 2018 A quick trip down to the Somerset coast today,a site well known for Black redstarts in the winter months,also good site for other birds-Stonechat,Wrens and robins all come quite readily to a few mealworms scattered on the rocks, or even turning over a few bits of seaweed to expose the insects hidden under it                                                                        https://www.carlmckienaturephotography.com/                                                ...

                                             Goldeneye ducks, January 2018 Goldeneye,Bucephala clangula, breeding plumage ,swimming on water coloured by early morning light, late winter.                                                                                                                  https://www.carlmckienaturephotography.com/            ...

                                                Great spotted woodpeckers A little spell with the woodpeckers recently,although I have photographed them many times and they are pretty easy to attract these days -it wasn't always that w                                                        https://www.facebook.com/carlmckie0/                                                                                                                https://www....

                                           Progress with eBook's                                                                  A site guide to Britain's orchids                                                                                                                              carlmckienaturephotography.com/ A very wet morning ,so spent it working on the E book version of my site ...