David Cottridge / Northern gannets {Morus bassanus} Bass Rock, Scotland, UK

David Cottridge / Lapwing {Vanellus vanellus} Kent, UK

David Cottridge / Goosander {Mergus merganser} female on water, Norfolk, UK

David Cottridge / Jay portrait with full crop (Garrulus glandarius) Essex, UK

David Cottridge / Little green bee eater (Merops orientalis) Israel

David Cottridge / Immature Armenian gull (LArus armenicus) standing on sand, Magan Michael, Israel

David Cottridge / Spectacled warbler (Sylvia conspicillata) perched on bramble, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

David Cottridge / Black winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) standing in water with reflection, Lesvos, Greece

David Cottridge / Great tit (Parus major) with deformed bill, UK

David Cottridge / Streaked rock sparrow (Petronia petronia) standing on rock, Lesvos, Greece

David Cottridge / White crowned black wheatear (Oenanthe leucopyga) standing on rock, Israel

David Cottridge / Black eared wheatear (Oenanthe hispanica) male standing on rock, Lesvos, Greece