A Cardiff ecologist has snapped up two UK photography awards.
Adam Seward, an ecologist at Cardiff university, won in two out of five awards in the British Ecological Society photographic competition.
His image of a puffin being released was voted the best entry in the Ecology in Action category by the panel of judges, while his photograph of wheatears in a May snow shower won the Student category.
Seward, a student at Cardiff School of Biosciences, said: "The pair of wheatears were within my study population on Fair Isle in 2010.
"One day in May, there was a very short snow shower while I was topping up their feeder, and I took the chance to get a series of photos of the wheatears in the unusual conditions. I like the complementary poses of the birds, as well as the streaks of snow falling."
"I also took the puffin photo on Fair Isle in 2010. It was a bit of fun really, with the puffin looking quite comical emerging from the bird bag – although I'm sure the puffin wouldn't see it that way. The puffins were being ringed for a long-running population monitoring project."
Seward has written more about his photography and research on his website here.
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