Birds

Veerse Meer was a wonderful place for bird photography and I wonder if it's still so today. One could park one's car on the roadside verge right next to the water and photograph from the car window whilst the birsd simply took no notice. Here we see a ringed plover and what i think is a redshank only about 5m from the lens.

Avocet. Oostvaardersplassen in 1989.

Barn owl @ The Hawk Conservancy near Andover in October 1998.

Is this a greenfinch?

Great tit

Goldfinch. ost of my years working in Uithoorn were spent in an office at the back of the mezzanine fl;oor but for a couple of summers I was at the front and the anticipated pleasure was the arrival of the goldfinches each spring. Photted from my open office window with a Canon AE1 + Tamron 500mm mirror lens on a a pile of books for stability.

Goldfinch

"Brrr !!! It's cold," muttered the heron. Photographed on a bitingly cold and frosty November 8th 1982 near Uithoorn in the Netherlands.

A house martin photographed through the glass of my landing window when I lived in Chesham in 1979. They used to line up on this cable twice a year.

Lapwing. Veerse Meer.

Lapwing. Oostvaardersplassen in 1989.

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this parade of oystercatchers walking sedately past my car window at Borsele in Zeeland.

One of the delights of living in Uithoorn (Noord Holland) was that, in most years, the summer brought a flock of spoonbills to a feeding ground only a five minute bike ride from my home. They were very skittish and hard to photograph as a result.

A pair of nesting storks snapped by chance in a farmyard somewhere near Schoonhoven (NL).

I'm pretty sure that this is a reed warbler. feel free to correct me if I'm wrong! Taken on a bird watching trip to the nature reserve at Oostvaardersplassen in 1989.