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Birds

Photographs of local birds in Dumfries and Galloway.

  • Dunlin in summer plumage
  • Barn Owl 2
  • Ringed Plover 1
  • Common Sandpiper
  • Mute Swan cygnets 1a
  • Mute Swan with cygnets
  • Mute Swan cygnets
  • Pied Wagtail 1a
  • Pied Wagtail
  • Sand Martin
  • Goosander (male)
  • Greenfinch
  • Female Siskin
  • Goldfinch
  • Heron on mudflats
  • Peregrine Falcon in Galloway
  • Barn Owl returning to nest
  • Barn Owl
  • Barnacle Geese in flight
  • Grey Wagtail
  • Kingfisher 3
  • Skylark
  • Kingfisher 1
  • Male Stonechat
  • Skylark
  • Barnacle Geese in flight
  • Barnacle Geese
  • Dipper
  • Swallow collecting mud
  • Blackbird Female
  • Kingfisher 2
  • Swan Head close up
  • Yellowhammer, male
  • Willow Tit at nest
  • Wigeon, drake
  • Whooper Swans in flight
  • Whooper Swan landing
  • Whooper Swan feeding, close up
  • Female Blackbird
  • Small group of Turnstones on the Solway shoreline
  • Tufted Duck, Drake
  • Red Kite
  • Red Kite
  • Stonechat Male
  • Fulmars on cliff
  • Fulmars at nest on cliffs
  • Barnacle Geese a3
  • Family group of Whooper Swans
  • Pied Wagtail 3
  • Pied Wagtail 2
  • Pied Wagtail 1
  • Pied Wagtail at nest
  • Pochard Duck
  • Nuthatch
  • Nuthatch
  • Grey Wagtail
  • Greylag Goose
  • Moorhen 1
  • Moorhen 2
  • Grey Wagtail
  • Oystercatcher at sunset
  • Peregrine Falcon take off
  • Single Barnacle Goose in flight
  • Kingfisher 1a1
  • Whooper Swans in flight a1
  • Whooper Swans in flight A2
  • Barnacle Geese in flight a2
  • Incoming Knot
  • Knot on roost
  • Large flock of Knot on the Solway
  • Knot landing on the Solway Firth
  • Leucistic Red Kite
  • Female Mallard
  • Lesser black-backed Gull Dumfries
  • Wigeon on ice 1.
  • Barnacle Geese landing
  • Whooper Swan a2
  • Red Kite
  • Greylag geese 1a1.
  • Greylag in flight 1a.
  • Collard Dove 1a.
  • Buzzard on fence 1.
  • Red-legged Partridge
  • Barn Owl
  • Red Kite
  • Barnacle Geese in flght over water
  • Red KIte
  • Barnacle Geese in flight
  • 2 Barnacle Geese in flght 1a
  • Barnacle Goose
  • Barnacle Geese feeding
  • Waxwing in berries
  • Red Kite
  • Barnacle Geese bathing
  • Greenfinch
  • Goldfinch
  • Swallow
  • Pied Flycatcher (Male)
  • Cock Pheasant
  • Black Guillemot 2a
  • Mallard male on ice
  • Barnacle Geese take off at WWT Caerlaverock
  • Leucistic Red Kite
  • Barnacle Geese high over Mersehead on the Solway
  • Dipper 1
  • Dipper 2
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull Juv with Salmonoide
  • Great Spotted Woodpecker
  • Heron at Sunset
  • Hering Gull with young
  • Lesser Black-backed  Gull in surf
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull Juv
  • Mute Swan head
  • Goosander in surf
  • Mute Swan landing

 
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Keith Kirk

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These webs pages have been put together by Keith Kirk.  Keith is a semi pro natural history photographer and writer.  He is the wildlife feature writer for D&G Life magazine and also writes a monthly Nature Notes column for the Galloway News.  His day job is a countryside ranger with Dumfries and Galloway Council, something he has been doing for over 24 years.  Keith also has another web site which promotes him as a photographer, whilst this site is more about Dumfries and Galloway, an unknown part of Scotland. www.dumfriesandgallowaywildlife.co.uk

 

Also check out www.flickr.com/photos/keithkirk8 which he updates on almost a daily basis with his latest images.

 

You can also find me on Facebook   

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Keith is also a photographer who has tested many types of photography kit for manufacturers . At the moment he is testing Bushnell and Spypoint wildlife/trail/stealth cameras. Checkout the link at the top of the page or go to www.scottcountry.co.uk for more info.  Also coming soon will be a report on a new outdoor clothing manufacturer (Ridgeline) that is producing good kit for Wildlife Photographers and Birdwatchers.........so watch this space.  Here's a quick preview.  

A clothing brand in New Zealand has now hit the shores of the UK. Featuring technical fabrics, and membranes that are ideal for photographers and birdwatchers in the changeable UK Climate. Life is about experience and choices, those between you and your environment, you and the gear you wear. Ridgeline's products are affordable, rugged, durable and comfortable, and allow you to get on with the task at hand whenever you need to and wherever you are.

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