My favourite photos of 2025

Baby Muntjac, Deeping Lakes LWT

Barn Owl, near Cowbit

Bittern, Franks' Pit, Maxey, Cambs

Juvenile Black Redstart, Peterborough

Black Redstart, near Beeby's 1, Peterborough

Black Tern, the Welland at Deeping Lakes LWT

Chinese Water Deer, Great Fen, Cambs

Crane Family, Willow Tree Fen, Lincs

Laying Emperor Dragonfly and Common Blue Damselfly hitchhiker, Wader Pit, BLGP, Lincs

Glossy Ibis, Deeping Lakes LWT

Golden Eagle, Strathdearn

Goosander family, Maxey Cut, Cambs

Great Northern Diver, Beeby's 1, Peterborough

Grey Phalarope, Rutland Water

Dark-breasted Barn Owl, near Bourne, Lincs

Lesser Stag Beetle taking flight, Deeping Lakes LWT

Lesser Yellowlegs, Etton/Maxey Pits, Cambs

Norfolk Hawker, Baston Fen, Lincs

Otter, Deeping Lakes LWT

Red-footed Falcon, Baston Fen, Lincs

Red Kite, Deeping High Bank, Licns

Redstart, Greatford Cut, Lincs

Slavonian Grebe, Etton/Maxey Pits, Cambs

Temminck's Stint, Etton/Maxey Pits, Cambs

Tundra Bean Geese with Pink-footed Geese, Thorney Toll, Cambs

Turtle Dove, Deeping St James, Lincs

Wood Sandpiper, Franks' Pit, Maxey, Cambs

Kingfisher by Crowland Bridge (over the Welland)

Snow Goose moves to Deeping Lakes LWT and surrounds...

Leucistic Lapwing, Thorney Toll, Cambs

Slavonian Grebe at Maxey – 193 for the PBC year

Another great find by patchmaster Hugh Wright.

Snow Goose at Tongue End, a PBC area tick

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Some of the 90+ Cranes on Knarr Fen, Cambs

Some Scottish Highlands highlights

Young White-tailed Eagle, Strathdearn

Golden Eagles, Strathdearn

Dipper, Nethy Bridge

Great Northern Diver, Ault Bea

Rock Pipit, Burghead