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It is illegal to disturb schedule 1 birds and photographing them on or near their nest constitutes this unless you are experienced and have a licence from English Nature. See:- http://www.wildlifeupclose.co.uk/codeofconduct.html General photography while they are fishing is fine and if you set...

Isle of Wight is brilliant if you fancy a little holiday! http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcweather/9476060134/

For wildlife using telephoto focal lengths I tend to prefer AV with widest aperture set. This gives the fastest possible shutter speed for the given conditions and you can't have too fast a shutter speed. (Well I know you can if you are wanting motion blur or some special effect). Maximum...

Image 2 is a lovely natural shot. I think it would benefit from an increase in contrast and a portion cropped off at the bottom. I think most of the improvements could have been done with the setup. The adult looking at their phone detracts so I would have tried to compose with the child on...