Rob Hill

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Freelance bird surveyor and copywriter. Yearns to live in Cornwall. Nature is a language, can’t you read?

A calling Common Tern perched atop a yellow buoy which is sat in calm still water. The tern is half-facing the camera, and is a smallish slim bird with long grey wings, a black head, and deep red bill & legs.
Picture of a young Scaup on calm but grey water. Scaups are medium sized ducks. This one is generally a chocolate brown colour all over, with lighter grey or white patches on the back and sides.
A Curlew Sandpiper - a small wading bird - feeding on mud. The bird has mottled brown wings, a buffy brown neck and head, clean white underparts, and a slim black bill which is slightly downcurved.
Evening photo of St Michaels Mount in Cornwall. A brown pebble beach in the foreground sweeps left, with the mount sitting atop a calm blue sea under a crisp sky which is almost the same colour.
A female Redstart perched atop a fencepost in the sunshine, with bramble and hawthorn leafs in the background
A Red-veined Darter dragonfly, resting on the ground in the sun, perched on a brown twig. It has a thin deep scarlet body, red eyes, and delicate wings with red veins.
A burnt orange sunrise over young green wheat fields, with a farm track going into the distance.
An adult White-fronted Goose sat down in the grass. Wind ruffling its feathers. Occasionally stretching its neck and calling.
A male Bullfinch, with black head, pink breast and grey back, perches in a bare bramble bush. He is eating a small blackberry.
Winter bushes covered in ice crystals with foggy marshes in the background.
A lowland river valley in soft morning light, with fields partially flooded and hedges on the horizon
A lowland river valley in golden morning light. Green fields either side of a winding brook, with hedgerows in the distance.
Two female Goosanders, large grey ducks with rich brown heads and thin red bills, sitting together on the calm water of a canal.
An Alpine Accentor feeding amongst short tufty grass.