Last month, we left Vancouver, British Columbia, bound for Alaska on board a French ‘expedition ship’ called ‘Le Soleal’. Not like any other expedition ship, the 3 years old Le Soleal was beautiful, had a touch of luxury, an opulent dining room, dancing girls, pianists, trivia quizzes, bingo etc.etc. It was…
In case you’re reading this and wondering what new images might appear in the next few months, here’s a pre-view of up and coming trips. We’re back to mid Wales shortly so there might be more kites provided I can find a shot a bit different to those I’ve already…
It’s May and we’re back on Mull, one of our favourite UK wildlife spots. Last week, when we weren’t here, the weather was amazing, this week less so – 10c lower, a mixture of sun, light cloud and heavy rain so not brilliant for wildlife photography. However, Mull is such…
By some stroke of good fortune, I’ve managed to get another photo in the May edition of BBC Wildlife. Naturally, I’m delighted. If you want to see the whole picture and not just the clipped version in this blog, search under ‘water buffalo’. It’s the cattle egret sitting on the…
We have tawny owls in our garden regularly but, being a night hunter, we only occasionally see them flying over. We often hear them during the night and quite often during the day. Their daily calls usually prompt a search of the trees and, until now, I’ve only imagined them…
April 26th 2016 and this is the first youngster in our garden this year. Baby robin, weighing in at just a few ounces, and parent seem to be doing well.
It’s 7th April, the weather is a bit mixed and cold so I decided to set up my camera in the bedroom window and have my very own ‘big garden birdwatch’. You can see some of the images on ‘my big garden birdwatch’ post, showing a male bullfinch as the…
I can almost set my calendar by the mallards’ arrival to our garden. The same pair turned up the day before yesterday and almost immediately emptied the ground feeders and churned up the pond to a murky dark grey. They’ve been coming for eight years, arriving every March and leaving in…
A couple of days ago , we found a dead sparrow hawk under the apple tree in our garden. It had no obvious sign of injury and I wondered if it had hit the tree in its rapid flight into the garden. Strange. Usually, birds we find dead in the garden have…
I’m in Sri Lanka at present, sitting by a pool, relaxing after climbing the 5th century Sigiriya Rock fortress, which was ok because it was raining and all the birds were hiding. We spent the last two days at Wilpattu national park where the roads are so bad you have…