Mike Smith
@MikeCSmiffy
(Dis)gracefully retired from a career in engineering and sales. Now pursuing my interest in nature. RSPB volunteer and amateur (very!) photographer
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24-11-2009 15:56:56
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Sedge Warbler at full volume!
This bird repeatedly climbed reeds beside the boardwalk at RSPB Minsmere 🌍 in order to sing
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Portrait of a Linnet.
This male posed briefly on top of a gorse bush in the dunes at RSPB Minsmere 🌍
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Wren in woodland at Dunwich, Suffolk with bokeh background of sunlight on leaves
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Kittiwakes are visiting the South scrape at RSPB Minsmere 🌍 to collect nesting material. Sadly they’re taking it to the platform off Sizewell rather than the new platform off Minsmere
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Female Wheatear hunkered down in the heather in yesterday’s blustery wind on Dunwich Heath
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Red Kite feeding on the carcass of a corvid in a field at the edge of RSPB Minsmere 🌍
Hoping it’s meal didn’t die of bird flu 🤞
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Tree Creeper about to enter his nest hole with a morsel for his partner who is probably sitting on eggs. Eastbridge, Suffolk
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Having completed it’s migration from Africa this Common Whitethroat got straight down to nest building in the scrub near the sluice at RSPB Minsmere 🌍
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This male Marsh Harrier flew directly over us as we walked through Westwood Marshes near Walberswick last weekend
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Male Dartford Warbler taking to the wing from his perch on a gorse bush on Westleton Common, Suffolk
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Delighted that British Dragonfly Society chose to include my photo of a Norfolk Hawker in the Spring 2024 edition of their magazine Dragonfly News.
Many thanks!!
Air brakes on, flaps down, Bittern coming in to land at RSPB Minsmere 🌍. Taken on Saturday from Island Mere hide
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Female Stonechat with a juicy meal. Seen on Saturday in the dunes at RSPB Minsmere 🌍
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Wren in full courtship display in the woods at RSPB Minsmere 🌍
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Interesting behaviour
One of a pair of Meadow Pipit hovering 2m above a patch of long grass in the dunes at Dunwich. A Pied Wag then joined them
Ideas?
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The Bearded Tits put on a show for us in Westwood Marshes near Walberswick last Sunday
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Green Veined White enjoying the spring flowers near Dunwich last weekend
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Female Adder seen in the dunes at RSPB Minsmere 🌍 at the weekend
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We came across this fabulous male Wheatear on Saturday in the dunes south of the sluice at RSPB Minsmere 🌍
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