Seem's like a life time but I once said "I will try and keep this Blog up to date"! A lot has been happening in the last few months and I can only apologise for the lack of post's. Those that are close to me and my family will understand, there are still a few loose ends to sort out and they WILL get sorted but that is another story. Anyway I have not been concentrating on much just lately but I am hopefully going to get back on track very sooner are a few images that I have taken over the last three months or so. Thanks for looking ..read more

Ask any wildlife photographer if they would like to photograph a Little Owl and the answer would probably be "yes". I have over the years photographed a fair few but I have always had a particular shot in mind and this year it started to come together as the farmer I know rotated his crop production and the field was set with 'Rape seed oil'. Now everybody and their father knows that when 'Rape' flowers it is a mass of yellow every other field looks as though it is carpeted in some kind of exotic yellow flower! About four months ago I started to put my plan in action and feeding a particula ..read more

I had always wanted to go to the Isle of Mull in Winter to photograph the Otters but in the back of my mind there was always the doubts of shorter days, the weather will the ferries be running. Luckily for us none of this became a problem yes we had a mixture of weather but for the main it was sunny, dry albeit a little windy and the Otters were about, although not playing for the camera all the time. We stayed for a week this time usually it would be for a fortnight as I have always said "a week is too short a time on this fantastic island". Sightings of Otters was good a total of 32 sighti ..read more

We are lucky in the fact that in Derbyshire we have our fair share of streams/rivers that are doing very well for Dippers. One or two of the more common known spots do tend to get heavily used by photographers and have caused problems for the birds themselves. I fortunately have found a few areas out of the reach of 'joe public' lets say by meeting up and getting on with a Head River Keeper, who has helped me along the way so that I can observe and photograph the birds without causing any problems. This has taken a lot longer and will continue to do so, as they say "a little at a time"! So ..read more

I am now taking bookings for the Harvest Mice Workshops if interested please email me on alan.heeley1@btinternet.com   Thanks for looking ..read more

Seem's like a life time but I once said "I will try and keep this Blog up to date"! A lot has been happening in the last few months and I can only apologise for the lack of post's. Those that are close to me and my family will understand, there are still a few loose ends to sort out and they WILL get sorted but that is another story. Anyway I have not been concentrating on much just lately but I am hopefully going to get back on track very sooner are a few images that I have taken over the last three months or so. Thanks for looking ..read more

Not really as it was the second day of the New Year. Decided that a trip onto the high tops of the Derbyshire moorlands was called for, and with two good friends in tow off we set. As an added bonus a fresh few inches of snow had fallen on the very highest parts of the moors making a bigger challenge in picking out the Mountain Hares than it would have been, but once you had got your eye in we all started to find them. Days up here with the Hares are never the same but within say 30 minutes you can usually judge what the Hares are going to be like and today was no exception, today we just co ..read more

Ask any wildlife photographer if they would like to photograph a Little Owl and the answer would probably be "yes". I have over the years photographed a fair few but I have always had a particular shot in mind and this year it started to come together as the farmer I know rotated his crop production and the field was set with 'Rape seed oil'. Now everybody and their father knows that when 'Rape' flowers it is a mass of yellow every other field looks as though it is carpeted in some kind of exotic yellow flower! About four months ago I started to put my plan in action and feeding a particula ..read more

Yes it has been some time from my last post and I can remember saying that I would not get into the same routine as a lot of other people do when starting a Blog, but believe you me a LOT has been happening and there is a LOT more to happen!!!!!!! Anyway role on 2017 that's all I can say. Decided to have a trip to the East coast, for two reasons really one to see and photograph with a good friend of mine the second to be able to photograph Grey Seals and their pups. Bags packed and the B and B sorted, Anne home from work fed, watered and changed; off we set. A good steady three hours later ..read more

I had always wanted to go to the Isle of Mull in Winter to photograph the Otters but in the back of my mind there was always the doubts of shorter days, the weather will the ferries be running. Luckily for us none of this became a problem yes we had a mixture of weather but for the main it was sunny, dry albeit a little windy and the Otters were about, although not playing for the camera all the time. We stayed for a week this time usually it would be for a fortnight as I have always said "a week is too short a time on this fantastic island". Sightings of Otters was good a total of 32 sighti ..read more