The final bird we photographed on the three day trip to Wiltshire was the displaying great bustard that are being reintroduced to Salisbury Plain. This is a magnificent bird that once bred in the UK on Salisbury Plain and the Yorkshire Wolds but was hunted to extinction. Now, a dedictaed team are collecting eggs under...
I’ve been away for a few days with a couple of friends to photograph firecrest in Wiltshire. I’m not sure what the breeding status of this beautiful bird is in Yorkshire, but down in Wiltshire they seemd to be almost abundant! The woodland edges around Longleat were ringing with the sound of these colourful, but...
Just returned from a photo trip to Wiltshire photographing a couple of special species and while there, we also hit the New Forest for Dartford warbler. There were plenty of these beautiful little birds around but getting close was a whole different game, they were incredibly shy. However, with a little patience we eventually managed a few decent...
Wildfowl and waterbirds in Lancashire: Mere Sands Wood The glorious spring weather tempted me into a foray for wildfowl and waterbirds over in Lancashire today. Although the weather was excellent, the hit rate for species was less so with no sign of the long staying bittern, very few waders at Martin Mere WWT and absolutely...
Songbird photography A couple of hours of songbird photography at Old Moor RSPB reserve near Barnsley paid dividends today resulting in more than a handful of good images. The most common bird was bullfinhc and reed bunting along with the usual suspects such as blue tit, great tit, goldfinch, blackbird and chaffinch, but we had...
