Ive been running the Wildscenes website since the early 90s and it has gone through various iterations to become what it has today. I am no coder by any means and so updating and changing the web site style has always been a challenge. Over the recent weeks, Wildscenes became corrupt and was not displaying...
After several visits amd many hours in the hide, I finally had a chance to photograph bitterns on the Humber estuary. The views were only fleeting apart from a single fly past so it paid to be on full alert the whole time in the hide. Once a very rare bird in the UK, bittern...
Despite the attrocious impending weather conditions due later in the day, I decided to pay a vist to Old Moor RSPB reserve and have a walk around. The visit paid dividends as I ended up with a small party of bearded tits feeding in the phragmites not too far from the path. The midday sun...
A couple of months ago, I picked up an eye hawk moth from an apple tree and brought it home to photograph. As it was late when I found it, I kept it overnight to photograph first thing the next morning and, when I came to get it out of the container, I found it...
Sometimes, you just marvel at nature’s creation and the caterpillar of the vapourer moth never fails to impress me! A mass of hair and ‘shaving brushes’ and difficulty in determining which is the head and which is the tail, this is a very impressive beast. I have photographed these caterpillars a few times now, but...
