The Solway has to be just the best place in the UK for photographing Goosanders. Photo taken on the latest trip to Southern Scotland. Next years tour dates are pending.

One bird that rarely shows in bright sunshine is the Water Rail. Always hidden; the books use the word crepuscular, and always in the half light of a secluded pool or corner. This one we photographed in Scotland recently. Although he was initially quite wary he succumbed and came out to feed in the open eventually.