Gone Fishing
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1y ago
 A trip to the coast resulted in a photo opportunity to photograph a couple of Cormorants approaching quite close to the shoreline whilst fishing.  They managed to catch a couple of large fish, one of which I didn't think could be swallowed, but after a couple of minutes and numerious attempts, it eventually went down.   ..read more
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The R6 for Wildlife Photography
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1y ago
It’s not often I buy a camera brand new and that’s just recently been release, but the R6 was an exception. I’m not the kind of person who needs to buy the latest camera because it’s ‘the latest’ and for the most part I was happy with my 80D which was 4 years old at the time.  There was, however, a few niggly things I was finding a little frustrating. Focusing for birds in flight wasn’t anything to write home about and the shutter sound was very audible, even on ‘silent’. I like to photography in particularly mammals which tend to have good hearing and the last straw came when on two occ ..read more
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Watching Barn Owls
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1y ago
In recent weeks I've been spending some early mornings watching, and occasionally, when lucky, photographing a Barn Owl.  Having never seen one at this location (though my trail camera picked it up once at night), I’m guessing the recent views during daylight hours are due to the requirements of feeding the young and so was hunting as late as after 7:00am. It seemed to be having a good amount of success as it was hunting for twenty or so minutes before catching something and then heading off, to return over an hour later.  At the weekend I spotted it on arrival at the location at 4:1 ..read more
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Springs about, and so are the Hares
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2y ago
  A year ago, I'd never even seen a Hare in the wild, then last summer I discovered them locally and since spent some time watching and photographing them.  During the summer they were not hard to find and with the crops in the fields they could very easily be approachable as they would using the sides of the fields as pathways so just lying still at a good vantage point would result in a decent encounter. A Brown Hare taken during the summer using the edge of a field    Same area but after harvest   Once the crops where gone however, with no cover, the Hares moved l ..read more
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Early Morning Macro
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2y ago
What was perhaps the last of a late summer warm weather spell, I ventured out just before sunrise in the hope of maybe catching some wildlife.  Unfortunately, there were a lot of dog walkers so very little to see, but I came prepare with a back up plan of doing some macro photography. For this I had brought along my much unused Sigma 105mm Macro lens.  Up utill minutes earlier there had been a very heavy low lying cover of mist in this part of the Tyne valley, but it vanished quickly leaving thousands of dew covered spider webs.  This made for some very picturesque photography w ..read more
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A Morning with Brown Hares
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2y ago
 Just a quick post from my morning photographing Brown Hares.  Plenty of sunshine gave me the opportunity to photograph them with the light both behind and in front helping to give a different look ..read more
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Mixed Bag–Mixed Fortune
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2y ago
Over the last month I have spent quite a bit of time getting up at ungodly hours, making the use of the early sunrises in the hope of photographing three specific animals.  Hares, Rabbits and Foxes.  It’s reminded me of just how much luck and timing and play a part of your success. First time:  The Hares were abundant but mostly from afar or glimpses in the growing wheat fields and little chance of getting close to them and if I did, it was to see the back end of them as they sprinted away having saw me first.   On my way back, I spotted a lone Hare along the path betwee ..read more
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A Return
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3y ago
It's been a while since last posting. Not really sure if people are interested in looking at blogs anymore with social media replacing it. A lot of blogs I used to look at, also haven't posted anything in a long time. The last year has also seen a move for me and of course the lockdown, making getting out difficult. This has however, forced me to look locally for photo opportunities.  The area is a mixture of built up residential and farmland but this is largely surrounded by the housing areas, so is quite isolated.  Just before lockdown I was able to go out to scout around the area ..read more
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Who's Stalking Who?
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4y ago
I haven’t been out much this summer, but couldn’t resist what might be a last gasp spell of warm weather this bank holiday weekend.  I thought I’d try my luck with Foxes again although at this time of year the cubs dispersed, so making it less likely to see a Fox than it was a couple of months ago.  Luck have it, after a couple of hours a Fox made an appearance in the distance.  I spent the next hour moving from one position to another trying to get into a place where I would get a perfect view point but each time I did, it proved that moving was a mistake as had I stayed put, I would have pr ..read more
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The Fox & Rabbit II
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5y ago
It’s not often  I will go back to a successful shoot at a location in the hope of replicating the success again as it rarely turns out that way, but at this time of year it’s a great time to see and photograph foxes as this years young haven’t left for their own territories so you have a number of foxes in one place some of which haven’t yet learnt to fear humans.With that in mind I returned to the same location as before.  Conditions were different.  Instead of dull, damp weather there was sunshine and, out of the wind at least, a little warmer.  However this time the wind was coming from a d ..read more
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