Tree Pipit (digiscoped)

One of several John Saunders and I saw at Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, last Sunday, while looking for the Short-toed Eagle.

Acid Dragonflies, Ashdown Forest, Sussex

Brilliant Emerald

Keeled Skimmer

Female Beautiful Demoiselle

Emperor ovipositing

Small Red Damselflies

Finally, a spider with a taste for damselfies...

Short-toed Eagle, Ashdown Forest, Sussex

Imperial Eagle, Hungary

Great Reed Warbler, Austrian-Hungarian border

More Penduline Tits

All at Neusiedl am See, Austria

Spoonbill, eastern Austria

Long-eared Owl, eastern Austria

Go away, I'm trying to sleep!

That's better

White Stork nests, eastern Austria

Bearded Tit family, Neusiedl am See

I would have loved more time to photograph this mixed family party of about 10 birds, but breakfast was calling and the bus would soon be waiting to take participants in the Zeiss Victory SF launch out to the further field for a bit of quality birding...

Great Bustards, eastern Austria

A life tick for me. Simply wonderful birds. The male was displaying to three females, all of which eventually flew off. Then we spotted another male in a field a few hundred metres away, also turning himself, apparently in vain and to nobody...