The eggs are hatched, the adults are going to be very busy for the next few weeks.
The photo shows one of the adults feeding the recently hatched young. I can see five young in this photo. That number will increase.
Storm clouds.
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Storm clouds and light beams over Loch Arkaig in the autumn. The storm clouds are about to add more water to the Loch.
The eggs are hatching.
The eggs are hatching. Here one of the adults is removing a large piece of egg shell from the nest. It will be dropped some distance from the nestbox as the birds don’t want potential predators knowing where the nest is.
Dew on grass.
Dew on grass at sunrise, Shropshire, England.
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I was actually set up in a portable hide (blind) at a Rabbit warren waiting for a Red Fox to show up and start hunting Rabbits. The Fox never appeared but I noticed the early morning light sparkling on the dew drops on the grass seed heads. As I didn’t want to leave the hide in case the Fox made an appearance I was working on compositions from the lens opening and using a mix of telephoto lenses and teleconverters for different framings.
Raindrops.
Raindrops on a recently waxed car roof.
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An old photo, taken when I was studying photography in the late 1970s.
Week 19. A couple of early mornings.
I was down at the Colpoy’s Bay shoreline for the sunrise a couple of times in week 19. As the sun rises around 6 a.m. at this time of year I was down there before 5:30.
The first morning was mostly cloudy with a wind so the water was quite choppy.
The second morning had a mainly clear sky. Less windy so calmer water.
Land, mate, preen.
A sequence of photos taken on the Lake Huron shoreline in the spring.
I was photographing a Common Tern on a rock in the water when a second bird flew in.
The second bird landed and approached the one on the rock. By the front birds wing position it was fairly obvious what was going to happen next.
The birds mate. I’m guessing that they were a well established pair as the male didn’t bring a fish as a courtship offering.
After mating both birds started preening.
