SOS Website Gallery 2010
A recent selection of photographs submitted by members and published with permission. Copyright is held by the original photographers. Many of these images are for sale please email us if you are interested in buying one and we will put you in touch with the photographer concerned. Outstanding pictures are occasionally selected by Bird Guide for their "Picture of the week award" and where this has occurred the text will be in red. The Bird Guide website can be found at www.birdguides.com
Many of these may also be found in the gallery at Shropshire Birds@ Yahoo Groups. To join the group go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shropshirebirds Jim Almond and Paul King now have their own blog sites where you will find more of their photographs. For Jim shropshirebirder.blogspot.com and for Paul pkdigitalwildlife.co.uk/blogspot.html. For another newcomer to the blog corner you will find Jason Buckley at tsbantics.blogspot.com. I have recently discovered Yvonne Chadwick's blog at yvonne-featheredfriends.blogspot.com which is well worth a visit.
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CHECK OUT JIM ALMOND's BLOG (see above for link) FOR HIS "TOP TWENTY" PICS OF 2009 - SOME STUNNING SHOTS
Curlews at Wood Lane 5 March 2010 (photo Paul Burgess)
Great Crested Grebe display at Priorslee Lake 18 February (photo Paul King)
Little Grebe at Venus Pool 26 February (photo Maurice Baker)
http://pkdigitalwildlife.co.uk/blogspot.html
Compare the Goldfinch - unusual plumage at The Rea February 2010 (photo Peter Deans)
Closer view of the unusual bird The Rea February 2010 (photo Peter Deans)
Sparrowhawk at Venus Pool 9 February (photo Jim Almond)
Female Smew at Whitemere 11 February (photo Paul Burgess)
1st Winter male Red-breasted Merganser at Colemere 11 February (photo Paul Burgess)
Long-tailed Tits at Manor Way, Shrewsbury 9 January (photo Maurice Baker)
Buzzard at Wood Lane 15 January 2010 (photo Paul Burgess)
Bittern at Priorslee Lake 10 January 2010 (photo Jim Almond)
Nuthatch at Haughmond 9 January 2010 (photo Jim Almond)
The hard weather is driving birds into gardens as evidenced by this and the following picture by Jim Almond
Fieldfare (above) and Redwing (below) in a Telford garden 4 January.
a rescued Female Blackcap at Muxton 5 January (photo Warren Tack)
Goldeneye at Ellesmere 6 January (photo Paul Burgess)
Caspian Gull at Priorslee Lake 3 January (photo Jim Almond)
Smew on the trout pool below Venus Pool 3 January (photo Jim Almond)
Whooper Swans at Melverley 3 January (photo Jim Almond)
Tufted Duck diving at Ellesmere 2 January (photo Paul Burgess)