A trip along the M62 to the banks of the River Humber to photograph bitterns turned into something far more exciting when I witnessed this male march harrier nest building deep in the reedbeds. The bird spent about an hour flying in with reeds and twigs and dropping them into the reeds and then each...
I never tire of photographing firecrest, they are such gorgeous little birds flitting around in the bushes and trees. I’ve been lucky enough to photograph them in Wiltshire on several occasions now so I thought I’d post an image I’ve just processed up.
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...
