The sinensis Cormorant (the continental subspecies of our local Cormorant) was still considered a national rarity in Scotland until e...

Lesser Black-backed Gull, hybrid LBBxHerring Gull, Herring Gull (top–bottom) I popped along to Musselburgh mid-afternoon to check the g...

Comparison shot showing different mantle tones of argenteus Herring Gull (left), graellsii Lesser Black-backed Gull (right) and Herring ...

Crested Myna... sadly not.. Too busy before my recent brief trip to Portugal to get to grips with the range of exotic species breeding ...

Unringed adult Mediterranean Gull at Seafield, Edinburgh, 2 Aug 2013 Well, I hadn't seen a Mediterranean Gull this year so was plea...

The Atlas Long-legged Buzzard Buteo rufinus cirtensis is little known in terms of its identification and distribution. Not only is it si...

Having just returned from a two week family holiday in Spain and Portugal I thought that I would post this beauty first - a moulting fi...

Young Jackdaw with 'brown' plumage mutation? One of two out of a hundred or so that were brown rather than black and grey Took m...

My favourite sequence of shots from Pulau Tioman - a sub-adult White-bellied Sea Eagle being ushered away from a nesting colony of Black-...