A gallery of favourite images - click the thumbnails for full size pictures.

One big advantage of digital photography is that you can easily take hundreds of photographs in a single day and then just keep the best of them. Over the past few years I have taken thousands of pictures of birds and animals. Most are quickly discarded and I retain only a small percentage. Of these, a few stand out as images which I particularly like. Here are some of them.

(These images are best viewed full screen. Use 'f11' on your keyboard to select full screen and 'f11' again to return to the regular screen.)

Black-headed gull	Common terns	Fulmar - defending the ledge
Red squirrel	Fighting coots	Fox
Hoopoe on alert	Flight of Bar-tailed godwits	Northern wheatear
Wary water rail	Knot with Godwit	Chaffinch
Goldcrest eating aphids	Sedge warbler	Short-eared owl
Little grebe - the getaway	Greenfinch feeding on rosehips	Siskin feeding
Short-eared owl (2)	Squabbling gulls	Squabbling gulls (2)
A well fed kestrel	Little owl	Willow warbler
Little egret	Little grebe	Long-tailed tit
Treecreeper	Red Squirrel (2)	Marsh Harrier
Tern feeding young	Red deer on a Scottish hillside	Swan chase
Winter redpoll	Fox (2)	Raven's domain