A dull morning but I thought I ought to make a quick check of the nuthatch nest building in an old woodpecker hole in a large oak tree alongside the River Went. The birds were very busy closing down the hole with mud and leaves but the light mid morning was atrocious for photography, shooting...
While cleaning out the hard drives, I came across this rook photo which reprocessed and rehashed and now I really like it. Rooks are difficult birds to do as they are so shy and nervous, it’s very difficult to get near them.
This is a shot of a prehistoric Neolithic burial tomb in faux infra red that I took a while ago in the Dordogne. I used a R72 deep red filter over the lens to capture the upper frequencies normally associated with the infra red spectrum. Using this method, one has to compose and set the...
A couple of years back I was sitting in a small hide on the vast steppe area of Extremadura, Spain waiting and hoping to photograph great bustard when suddenly, onto the rock in front of the hide, dropped a hoopoe. Within minutes it was joined by a second bird and for around 15 minutes they...
The lapwings are well and truly back on their breeding grounds in the Dales just now; their acrobatic display flight and wild calls are a great lift to the spirit. The lapwing, or green plover. is a familiar bird to us but stop and take time to look closely and it is immediately obvious this...
