![]()
Cuban Bee Hummingbird (male) - the world’s smallest bird.
Males weigh less than 2 grams and are smaller than many insects.
Cuba, March 2010.
Picture Sales
Many of my images are for sale through the photo agency Alamy. Please click here to see my current portfolio
BOOK SALES
My latest book , Wildlife Photography Around The World, is now available. Please click on the link below to preview the book and follow the links to make a purchase.
Thank you.
STOP PRESS!!
They’ve fledged!!!
Both chicks have successfully fledged. One bird left on 12th August, the other one the following day. Mum (or dad?) Had an extra night in the box on 13th and left on 14th - nothing has been in since. Thank you for watching and all your kind comments. Hopefully they’ll have another go next year and we can follow all the action.

Update on the Swifts
27th June
The chicks hatched today!!! Hopefully I have now fixed the streaming issues as well. Enjoy.
25th July
The two chicks are growing rapidly. At night, one parent only (the same one each night?) stays in the nest, the other one roosting elsewhere.
If you would like to buy a nest box for Swifts to use on your house, here is a link to some sites (I bought mine from John Stimpson):-
http://www.swift-conservation.org/Shopping!.htm
This box is sited about 16 feet up from the ground on an east facing wall. I have Swifts nesting under tiles on the roof on both the east and west sides of my house. It is best not to site nest boxes facing north because the chicks are vulnerable to chilling with northerly winds. The camera inside works with infra red so you can see the inside of the box even in the middle of the night!

The two adult Swifts together near the entrance of the nest box which is to the right of the picture.
Above - the two chicks photographed on 23rd July 2012.
One bird, nearest the camera, is more adventurous than the other chick which is spending more time in the nest area.
Wildlife Photography DVD
To see an example of one of my Wildlife Photography DVDs, which are available to purchase as CD Roms, DVDs or Blue Ray Discs, just click on the You Tube icon to the left.
| Birds |
| Mammals |
| Insects |
| Arachnids |
| Fungi |
| Plants |
| Reptiles and Amphibians |
| Places |
| Albatrosses and Petrels |
| Grebes |
| Cormorants and Shags |
| Gannets and Boobies |
| Skuas |
| Gulls |
| Terns |
| Auks |
| Miscellaneous Seabirds |
| Passerines A-F |
| Passerines G-K |
| Passerines L-R |
| Passerines S-Z |
| Canines, Felines |
| Marine Mammals |
| Deer, Antelope and Allies |
| Marsupials, Platypus |
| Primates |
| Miscellaneous Mammals |
| Seals and Sea Lions |
| Dolphins and Porpoises |
| Whales |
| Polar Bear |
| Walrus |
| Butterflies |
| Moths |
| Dragonflies and Damselflies |
| Miscellaneous Insects |
| Orchids |
| Non Orchids |
| Europe |
| South America |
| Central America |
| The Arctic |
| Africa |
| Antarctica |
| Australia |
| Asia |
| Bulgaria |
| Denmark |
| Finland |
| Germany |
| Greece |
| Netherlands |
| Norway |
| Portugal |
| Spain |
| Sweden |
| United Kingdom |
| Argentina |
| Brazil |
| Chile |
| The Falkland Islands |
| The Galapagos Islands |
| Peru |
| Suriname |
| Uruguay |
| Costa Rica |
| Cuba |
| Panama |
| Trinidad and Tobago |
| Greenland |
| Iceland |
| Spitzbergen |
| Kenya |
| Indonesia |
| Birds |
| Mammals |
| Insects |
| Plants |
| Places |
| More about me |
| Africa |
| Asia reports |
| Australia |
| The Caribbean |
| Europe |
| India |
| North America |
| South America and Antarctica |
| Asia |
| Kenya, August 1982 |
| Tunisia, March 1986 |
| Kenya, August 2005 |
| South Africa, June 2006 |
| Kenya, October 2007 |
| Kenya, October 2011 |
| Indonesia 2011 |
| Australia, July 2000 |
| Australia and Hong Kong, August 2007 |
| St. Lucia, August 1996 |
| Cuba, March 2010 |
| Trinidad and Tobago, August 2006 |
| Goa, India, March 2008 |
| Florida, August 1999 |
| Florida, February 2012 |
| Antarctica, January 2006 |
| Costa Rica to Chile, January 2007 |
| Antarctica, January 2007 |
| Barbados to Argentina, November 2007 |
| Peru, October 2008 |
| Antarctica, January 2009 |
| Costa Rica 2011 |
| Indonesia |