Posted  07/07/2012

Hello and welcome to my new blog

My name is Steve Knell and I live in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire

Allow me to introduce you to my first post of what hopefully will be an interesting Nature/wildlife blog

I also  am just in the process of launching my website which will be at

www.steveknellphotography.co.uk

To contact me, Email me at

steven.knell@ntlworld.com

I am going to share with you a few photo`s from a recent trip to the Hortobagy region of Hungary.

I went for a week in mid-May and although we had mixed weather ,I came away with some half-decent images of birds that are difficult ,if not impossible to do in this country

I was on an organised trip ,so some of the birds were laid on a plate so to speak whilst others were found along the way

This Hoopoe was nesting in a farm wall and had large young in the nest which were just about to leave. 

Another colourful bird that i really wanted to photograph was Roller and thankfully a few pairs were just settling in to breed.

This bird is a male and although males are generally more colourful, the female was difficult to tell apart in this pair

Red-footed falcon `s are communal and there must have been around 10 pairs nesting in close proximity .

In this species, the sexes are really different - the males sooty black with reddish vent and females a sort of orange colour with mottled wings

Whilst doing the redfoots an added bonus came by in the form of Wood warbler - a British species iI have wanted to photograph for a long time

These are my favourite pics from the week - I am going to leave you with these and will be back for part 2 soon....