I’m getting soaked out here, are the kids grateful?

by Darren

I really enjoy taking photographs in the rain. It offers an opportunity to create some unique images and get a different perspective. I quite like being on location when it’s raining – most of the idiots that upset the wildlife don’t realise that their skin is waterproof and disappear into the dry. Having said that – when I took this photo I was inside the conservatory underneath a makeshift hide made from a dining room chair.

While I had the opportunity to stay in the dry this poor fella didn’t have the same choice. There were a lot of juveniles around and this adult starling was out looking for food to take back to the nest. It might be a natural instinct but the starling doesn’t look terribly happy about it all. I wouldn’t like to be the baby starling who said “but Mum, Dad, I don’t want bugs, I want a fat cake….”