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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

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.

 

Keith is also a photographer who has tested many types of photography kit for manufacturers . This has included Stealth Gear clothing  www.stealthgear.co.uk and 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.

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