My last blog about Snettisham was the most successful photo blog I have ever written in terms of views and traffic (read it here if you have not already read it). I am not entirely sure why, but I think the main reason is that Snettisham was in the mainstream news recently due to the record numbers of Red Knot gathering off The Wash.
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Seabird Photography on the Yorkshire Coast in Summer
Myself and my friend Chris Armitage decided to have a full weekends birding in Yorkshire, with the main aim of going to Wykeham Forest for the Honey Buzzards and Bempton Cliffs for the seabird colonies
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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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Kruger Lion Kill
This is an old story and video of mine from back in 2012, but a mega one, and one that doesn’t feature on my site, so here it is.
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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 - Tortuguero
Day 10 and we were up with the sparrows, armed with a boxed breakfast, ready for the long journey over to the Caribbean coast, with Tortuguero the destination. It’s always interesting seeing how the country changes from one coast to the next, whilst driving up and over the central spine of mountains. In Costa Rica, all the different altitudes and slopes creates lots of different habitats and micro-climates, meaning there are different pockets of wildlife to be seen, with each area bringing their own speciality species, adding to the biodiversity.
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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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Costa Rica 2019 - The Pacific Coast
We were now on day 4 of our tour of Costa Rica, and we were on the road again, this time down the pacific coast to our next hotel, Crystal Ballena, a beautiful hotel near Uvita with great birding. We broke up the journey with a stop at Quepos for lunch and a brief spell on the beaches of Manuel Antonio.
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