Moorhen

Beautiful in Winter

Fantastic Summer Plumage

Only a mother could Love

Banded Demoiselle

Male and Female

Male complete with sperm package

Male approaching Female

Golden Ringed Dragonfly

Impossible to get all the subject in focus from this angle.

Female because no clasper on the end of the body

The correct angle for the limited depth of field.

Beautiful Demoiselles

Ladies first,but why the drab colour compared to the male ?

This male is not as beautiful in my opinion as the Banded Demoiselle

Doing exactly what the book says , sitting on a leaf mid-stream

Puffin

Taken some years ago on the Farnes

Guillemot

Taken on the island of Sanda, off the Mull of Kintire

Jumpling

This little fellow was just about to jump

Black - headed Gull

The last gull for a while

Black-headed Gull

This was the best I could manage with a reflection.

Black-headed Gull

Flying up the River Kent in Kendal

Black-headed Gull

Celebration of Flight

The next few posts will be of Black-headed Gulls in flight. Almost as beautiful as the terns.

Reed Bunting

This male is just starting to go out of pristine breeding condition, but was on breeding territory, so I did not try to get any closer.

Tawny Owl

Yesterday at Hay bridge Deer Reserve I had a feeling I was being watched