Birds of the Loire Valley

The Loire is the last wild river in France. Listed as World Heritage Site by Unesco, the fauna and flora it contains are protected. I am fortunate to live near the banks of the river and through a floating blind, I can photograph the birds from close range. My photographic approach aims to educate Valley residents to the diversity and beauty of locals birds. I gathered my best photographs to create an exhibition. Some of them have received awards in various competitions and others are used by the League for the Protection of Birds.
Fishing, grooming, courtship, mating, feeding chicks ... you enter into the intimacy of the birds under the beautiful lights of the Loire Valley. In times of low water, the river offers many migratory birds sandy islands. Some species will make it a resting area while others stop for nesting. Terns are the most famous but gulls and plovers also nest on islands and sandbars. The birds arrive from late March to gather in noisy colonies. The parades and the couplings are formed to the spring, the first chicks are born 3 weeks later. Osprey, shorebirds and kingfisher are also part of the Loire fauna.