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golden palm weaver

A golden palm weaver building his amazing nest from carefully woven palm leaves. It takes a bout two days to build and if the female doesn’t like it, she’ll boot it to the ground!

Canon EOS 1D MkII with Canon 300mm L IS lens ISO400 1/800 at f/3.5

Yum!

squirrel

A photo from the archives. This red squirrel was munching on peanuts from a feeder in a garden in the Lake District. The image is this month’s free download so if you would like a hi-res version for your desktop wallpaper, just hit the subscribe button in the pop-up screen and join my newsletter.

Goldfinch

goldfinch

This happy little chappy was chirping away on a fine spring morning in the heart of Nottinghamshire.

Canon G3X ISO200 1/640 at f/9 220mm (600mm equiv) and cropped.