Professor Thomas Hanahoe                                                                                                                        Royal Photographic Society                                                                                           Bath                                                                                                                                                            Statement of Intent                                                                                                       FRPS                                                                                                                           Nature Panel                                                                                                                                                      10 September 2009

Birds of Great Britain                                                                                                                                                  My intent has been to improve my photographic skills by attaining the standard required for award of the Society's Fellowship Distinction and I have endeavoured to obtain this objective by photographing British birds. In presenting this Nature Panel, I depict a variety of birds displaying behaviours typical of their species. I have shown the birds undertaking a range of activities including hovering, diving, nest building, hunting, carrying prey, such as fish or insects, eating and feeding their young. I have also tried to capture the elegance of their flight activity, as well as the harmony that birds display when they fly together with companions. I obtained the photographs between March 2008 and June 2009 in a wide range of British locations and I thank the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the Wildlife Trusts for access to numerous of their locations.  In each instance the birds were wild and free. 

 

Gannets Diving*

 

 

Grey Heron with Nesting Material

 

 

Flock of Knot on the Turn*

 

 

Peregrine Falcon in Flight*

 

 

White-Tailed Sea Eagle with a Fish*

 

 

Great Crested Grebe With Prey

 

 

Barn Owl Hunting

 

 

Oystercatchers in Flight with a Mussel

 

 

Flock of Avocet in Flight*

 

 

Bartailed Godwits in Flight*

 

 

Juvenile Herring Gull with a Mussel*

 

 

Cormorant Flipping a Fish*

 

 

Osprey with a Trout

 

 

Bartailed Godwith with a Small Fish

 

 

Meadow Pipit with Insects*

 

 

Great Spotted Woodpecker Feeding a Juvenile*

 

 

Kingfisher with a Fish

 

 

Arctic Tern Hovering

 

 

Curlew Feeding

 

 

Marsh Harrier with a Stick*