This kestrel was photographed hunting on scrubland near Levenhall Links at Musselburgh.
This is reclaimed land, created by building a sea wall and infilling with ash from the now demolished Cockenzie power station.
The kestrel was hunting a bit downhill from me which allowed me to get some shots looking straight on to it.
The great thing about photographing kestrels of course is that they spend a lot of time hovering in one spot - very convenient when trying to focus!
These pictures of wading birds and ducks were taken at a pond near the shores of the Forth, just outside Edinburgh. Normally the wading birds like the Godwits, Oyster Catchers and Redshanks would have been […]
When I was young, it was quite unusual to see a Buzzard, but over the past 30 years or so, the Common Buzzard has become, eh….. quite common. Nowadays their range is expanding and it […]
Lift Off A swan doing its best to take off on the River Esk. Eventually it ran out of runway and gave up!
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