Steve Mills is an award-winning photographer. His image ‘The assassin’ won the Birds: Behaviour category in the prestigious Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2011. He was the only category winner from Britain. Your photograph, “The assassin”, won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2011, Behaviour: Birds category last year. What draws you to […]
Tag: Merlin
The Magical Land of Kutch, India – Birders Paradise – I
Miles and Miles of flat barren cracked land….No trees, no mountains, no streams, just barren emptiness…Imagine that, and you would have imagined paradise. Don’t agree with me, do you? ‘The Little Rann of Kutch’: This barren desolate land is the place to be for bird enthusiasts every winter. I have been visiting and re-visiting this […]
Merlin Perched in a Tree
Merlins are winter visitors in the Salt Lake Valley so I have just a few more weeks to attempt photographing them. Merlins used to be called “pigeon hawks” because their shape and flight patterns are similar to pigeons. Merlins feed on small mammals, birds as large as doves and apparently they include bats in their […]