The Wonderful World of Birds

There's nothing that I love more than getting out and about with my camera, experiencing the natural world, and enjoying the fresh air. While I have been out taking photos for a good few years, this is the first time that I have started to write a blog.

I do get out and about all year around, summer gives you such a different experience then spring, autumn and winter as there are animal babies everywhere. Yes, we have reached the time of year when the young of 2016 start to take their first exciting steps into the world.

I love photographing wildlife as a whole but am particularly drawn to birds as I just find them truly fascinating. At this time of year, there are fledglings all over the place and there were plenty at Pennington Flash over the weekend. I was hoping to capture some images of the birds with their young... and I am delighted to say that I was not left disappointed.

But it was a Mute Swan family that grabbed everyone's attention as mum and her young sat basking in the sun on the water's edge. Mum seemed totally unfazed by how close people were getting to her babies and it was great to see them all together.

There's something about swans that are just so majestic and regal - I never get tired of photographing them.

All over the site, there were parents with their young, feeding their babies while some chicks were exploring their surrounding solo and getting used to life outside the safety of the nest.

Pennington Flash is a site that I have been visiting for a few years and you always leave having captured something. Wildfowl and woodland birds and there in their droves and there is nothing better than spending a few hours by the lakes and the canal.