Photographing Grey herons

New Bird Hide

I have always been a big fan of the British styled bird hides with telescopic poles rather than the pop-up variety. I use pop-ups a lot, but my main portable hide is still a home made square type with upright poles. The advantage is it is easier to erect on a slope or rough ground

Bag Hide

I am now selling bag hides for wildlife photography and hopefully will have some pop up type hides online very soon. The bag hides are on my web site at http://www.wildlifephotographyshop.com and I have managed to edit my second video. See http://youtu.be/51q_IiUsnAI

Car hide

  We use cars as mobile hides and we use hides. Now I have a hide for my car. The largest leaf scrim net I sell is 6 meters by 2.7 meters and I choose it expecting it would cover a typical car easily. It does. I have not actually made use of it yet,

Common snipe

A common snipe in falling snow drying its wings after a bath. 1600 iso, 1/2000th at f7.1 with Canon EOS 1dx and 800mm lens

Goldfinch

At one point they were forecasting snow during today, but now the forecast has put it back to overnight snow. All too often it snows during the night, which is a great pity. This was taken the last time it snowed heavily which was a wonderful day from the comfort of a wooden hide. Canon

Kingfisher

The kingfisher is back on the lake where I usually photograph them. It is about this time of year when we start to see them each year. They are not very reliable yet, but I took a few pictures yesterday and will try again in the morning. I have started off on a very thin,