Tag: Tim Melling

  Tim writes: In 1897 two German Ornithologists (Ernst Hartert and Otto Kleinschmidt) were looking  through a series of Marsh Tits in the British Museum when they spotted a couple of Willow Tits that had been wrongly labelled.  The same year some fresh specimens were collected in Coalfell Wood, Finchley and three years later Willow…

Tim writes:  I took this photograph at Bretton Lakes in West Yorkshire in late January.  It was a warm, muggy, winter’s day, but the previous few days had been really cold and the lakes had frozen over.  But the warmer weather had melted much of the ice and a layer of melt water lay on…

  Tim writes: Hudsonian Godwit is quite a scarce North American shorebird and is classed as near-threatened by IUCN.  It breeds only in five well scattered areas ranging from northern Alaska to the shores of Hudson Bay.  It winters in southern South America but has regular stopover sites in North America, including southern Alaska where…

  Tim writes:  For much of the 20th Century nobody had been able to find a nest of Marbled Murrelet. By the mid twentieth century the National Audubon Society was even offering $100 reward for the finder of the first documented nest as all other nests of North American birds had been found by this…

Tim writes: Sometimes whale blows look photogenic, sometimes they do not.  When I was in Alaska I spotted that the perfect situation arose for taking whale blows so I seized the opportunity.  These circumstances were no wind, early morning backlighting, plus a dark background to accentuate the blow.  And here is the result on a…