News

Continuing my life-long quest to photograph the beauty of Short-eared Owls, I stumbled across this bird yesterday. A break in the weather, and it was out sunning itself, trying to get dry again, following on from earlier heavy rain. These birds roost on the ground generally and are therefore subjected to all the weather that comes their way.

I've been spending a bit of time recently looking for my beloved Short-eared Owls, birds I've had a passion for since starting bird in flight photography over 20 years' ago. They turn up, around about this time usually, all along the Suffolk coastline. A record shot from yesterday!

Sad news indeed, as the RSPB Images library is due to close in the Spring of 2026.

A commercial library offering high quality bird and other wildlife imagery, the library has been operating for over 43 years and was initially set up by Chris Gomersall, a well-known and respected professional wildlife photographer.

It is particularly sad for me as I have acted as an Agency Bird Photographer for the RSPB, supplying images for over 13 years, often involving some effort, time and determination.

However, I can understand why this has happened, it is not unusual and the number of successful commercial wildlife photographic libraries is dwindling all the time. That situation is only set to get worse imo.