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Dr. Kevin P. Elsby FRPS, DPAGB, AFIAP

Hello and welcome to Wildlife on the Web

My name is Kevin Elsby and this site is dedicated to showing images from the natural world which I have taken over the years. I hope you enjoy looking around the galleries. To see a larger version of a photo, just left click your mouse on it.

All photographs on the site are available for purchase. They are loaded onto the web as low quality JPEG files. However, all prints are made from the original highest quality RAW files and TIFF conversions, and are printed on the finest photographic paper.

Cuban Bee Hummingbird (male) - the world’s smallest bird.

Males weigh less than 2 grams and are smaller than many insects.

Cuba, March 2010.

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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.