BIOGRAPHY
Dickie Duckett FRPS
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After a career as a pilot in the Royal Air Force, including 5 years flying with and, later, leading the Red Arrows, I worked for a few years for a national charity.
In retirement, photography is now my main interest.
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I have been interested in the natural world, and especially birds, since I was a small boy. However, I did not try to photograph subjects until a posting to the Falkland Islands in 1985 inspired me to buy a camera. My 5 month tour there was mainly in the winter, but I was
still able to see and photograph some of the wonderful wildlife in the islands.
I returned to photograph the Falklands wildlife in 2004, and in 2007
when I also spent 2 weeks around South Georgia.
I now live in the Thames Valley where there are many opportunities for photographing wildlife, especially water birds.
Great-crested Grebes trying to re-build their nest as heavy rain raises the river level.
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Sadly, despite their efforts, the nest became completely flooded and the
birds left the two eggs and swam away with the
two chicks that had already hatched.