The Beauty of Feathers

Macro photos of feathers reveal their beauty.

A Green Parrots feather picked up off the floor of my local vet.

A blue and brown feather picked up on the towpath of the canal.

Patterns in a pheasant's feather

Caught in a Spider's Web

A fly caught in a spider's web. The macro shot shows the delicate feather like antennae.

I don't know what this was, but I imagine a part of a flowering tree nearby, blown into the web.

Rutland Water early July

Rutland Water's first Breeding Avocet in flight

The flashes of a swarm of minute flies as their wings catch the sun. Taken with the macro at 1/50th of a second, demostrating that they rotate their wings 650 times a second. Amazing

A colourful Lichen that caught my eye

A Black-Headed Gull in flight

Sunset at the hide whilst waiting for the Barn Owl, which didn't turn up this trip