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

Badgers

I have never been a nocturnal worker. I will spend all day in the field from dawn to dusk, but when it gets dark I have a strong desire to go home. Consequently I have never done that much with Tawny owls and Badgers. I have photographed them, but never extensively. This May I have

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

Beike BK45 Gimbal Tripod Head

Video is new to me, but I have just done my first sequence and posted it on U tube. It is about the Beike BK45 Gimbal tripod head.

More from the reflection drinking pool

So far I have had 13 species down to my drinking pool in just a few weeks. Not bad for the winter months. Great tit, blue tit, coal tit, goldfinch, greenfinch, magpie, jackdaw, wren, collared dove, nuthatch, lesser redpoll, blackbird and pheasant. I am going to modify it so I can photograph birds on the

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,

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

Jack snipe

You wait 40 plus years for one to come along in front of your camera and two come at once and get in each others way! Jack snipe. 800mm lens plus 1.4 extender. 3200 iso.  1/400th at f8. It was almost dusk. I have photographed Jack snipe once before, but not as close as this.

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,