A 14-year-old schoolgirl with an eye for “watching the birdie” has come up with an award winning photograph.

Lucinda Munn, from Cleenish Park, Enniskillen, snapped a robin feeding its young in a nest in her grandfather’s shed and won the “Going Live” Award in the British Gas Young Wildlife Photographer of the year competition.

It was during the Easter holidays that Lucinda, a pupil at Enniskillen Collegiate School, seized the opportunity to photograph the robin and its chicks. Accompanied by her parents, David and Hazel, and younger brother, Anthony, she was visiting her grandparents at Cleenish Park when they noticed that the bird had built a nest in the back shed.

The building was falling down but to the robin it was an ideal home.

Lucinda, who has been interested in photography for the past two to three years, tried taking pictures of the nesting bird with her own tine compact camera but was unhappy with the results. A friend of the family, Ian Herbert, offered to help and brought along his Canon EOS 100 fitted with a 28-80mm zoom lens. Setting the borrowed camera up on a tripod in her grandfather’s kitchen, Lucinda prepared to take her shot.

“I ended up taking one shot,” said Lucinda.

“It was a fluke,” she laughed modestly.

Lucky or not, the result was excellent so Lucinda decided to enter into the competition, and won.