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Female Bullfinch with Juvenile Great Tit in the background. Taken in our garden at East Wellow, Hampshire.

The Fulmar is almost gull-like but is a grey and white seabird that is related to the albatrosses. It flies low over the sea on stiff wings with shallow wing beats, gliding and banking to show its white under-parts and then grey upper-parts. At its breeding sites it will fly high up the cliff face riding...

Taken in my garden in Prestwood, Buckinghamshire on 24 March - the first real sign of Spring 2012

Taken in my garden in Prestwood, Buckinghamshire on 24 March - the first real sign of Spring 2012

Taken in my garden in Prestwood, Buckinghamshire on 24 March - the first real sign of Spring 2012

Taken in my garden in Prestwood, Buckinghamshire on 24 March - the first real sign of Spring 2012

Whilst its black plumage identifies it as a crow, the Chough has a red bill and legs unlike any other member of the crow family. It readily displays its mastery of flight with wonderful aerial displays of diving and swooping and can be found in flocks in autumn and winter. The Chough has a restricted...

The Black-headed Gull is not really a black-headed bird at all. It has a more chocolate-brown head and in fact for much of the year it has a white head. It is most definitely not a "seagull" and is found at estuaries, coastal marshes, freshwater marshes, gravel pits, lakes and reservoirs, moorland...

The Avocet is a distinctively-patterned black and white wader with a long up-curved beak. It is the emblem of the RSPB and symbolises the bird protection movement in the UK more than any other species. Its return in the 1940s and subsequent increase in numbers represents one of the most successful conservation...