Japan has been on my list of places to go for a very long time. What brought Japan to my attention from a birding point of view was the chance to see the biggest owl in the world, Blakiston’s Fishing owl, as well as one of the biggest eagles in the world, Steller’s sea eagle.
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The Outer Hebrides
My last blog post talked about all the sightings we had on a 1 day tour with Steve Duffield, the local wildlife guide for the Outer Hebrides. This post will talk about everything else I saw and did, as I was on the islands for a full week.
Read MoreWorld's End - Llangollen - Wales - Black Grouse
In recent years I have been making the annual trip up into the hills of North Wales to Worlds End and the legendary Black Grouse Lek that is there. I suppose, once you have seen it once then you have no real reason to return, but for a photographer, it’s different…
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Kruger National Park with my daughter - Pretoriuskop
Continuing my photoblog about my first-ever safari with my 4-year-old daughter. We left our base camp at Skukuza in Kruger national park after 3 days and headed west to Pretoriuskop, a camp I’ve stayed at before and always seems to have very different sightings. It has lower big game densities and more of the unusual species tend to be seen.
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Vultures of The Pyrenees
Ever since I first witnessed the Bearded Vulture on a David Attenborough documentary, many moons ago, I have been fascinated by them. I remember my thoughts when I first watched them on TV, and thinking what? A bird that lives off bones? How can this be, and how have I not heard of them before?
Read MoreSnettisham Wader Spectacular - a technical view
For this blog entry I am going to talk about my wildlife photography technique and my thought process behind how I got the images and videos featured in this post. Two of the photos have been shortlisted for Bird Photographer of the Year 2020 which I am very happy about so I thought I would share how I went about getting the images, with what settings I used and with my own critique from the beneficial view of hindsight.
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Coati
Costa Rica 2019 - Braulio Carrillo
This is my final photo blog entry for our wildlife tour of Costa Rica at the back end of 2019. Our time was up at Tortuguero National park and we needed to get a boat back to civilisation, and then start our journey inland back to the capital, San Jose. Jesse, our super guide, had a nice little stop off planned at a place called Donde Cope, half way to our next lodge which was called Tapirus Lodge, in Braulio Carrilllo national park
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Costa Rica 2019 - The Highlands
Continuing with my photo diary of our journey through Costa Rica, it was now day 8 and the next stop was the highlands of Costa Rica, and the beautiful valley of San Gerardo de Dota, with the main aim of seeing the Reslendent Quetzal, a very spectacular Trogon found in the could forests. On route we had 2 stops, one for this absolute beauty of a Northern Tamandua, which Jessy expertly spotted near the side of the road.
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View from Arenal
Costa Rica 2019 - Arenal Observatory Lodge
At the beginning of November I organised another tour of Costa Rica. This time it wasn’t strictly wildlife or birding, it also included adventure and a bit of general tourism, but as always with Costa Rica, it was jam packed with wildlife! There is no escaping nature in this country, there is something to see around every corner.
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A days birding with Steve Duffield on the Outer Hebrides
In late May I decided to go to an area of the country that I have never been to before, and one that keeps coming up in conversations as one of the best wildlife areas we have in the UK, The Outer Hebrides
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Turkey: Birding Cimikoy Meadows near Akseki
The next birding area I visited whilst in Turkey was Cimikoy Meadows, up in the mountains near the town of Akseki. This was a notably different environment; high altitude, colder, mountainous and a lot less people.
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