Category Archives: In the field

Merlin Magic

I first photographed merlin, Britain’s smallest bird of prey, in the Peak District about twenty years ago but of course that was all on film and so I have been putting feelers out in the last few years to try … Continue reading

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Springtime snow

To say I have neglected this blog would be rather an understatement. I could supply a host of lame excuses for the lack of activity but let’s just draw a line under the last 8 months since the previous entry … Continue reading

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Svalbard August 2011

After a long day’s traveling, the jagged peaks near Svalbard’s ‘capital’ Longyearbyen lay beneath me as we made our approach to the airport. It was close to midnight but the sun was still up bathing everything in its path in … Continue reading

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Roe shooting

With a good forecast I was out at dawn this morning on the hunt for roe deer amongst other things. Those of you sweltering in the south of the UK may find some comfort that the temperature reading in my … Continue reading

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Hen harriers

The past few weeks have been exceptionally busy trying to juggle 2020VISION office work with several photographic assignments. This week alone I’ve photographed hen harrier, white-tailed eagle and black-throated diver and have spent a total of 59 hours in various … Continue reading

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Nothing to grouse about

Black grouse or blackcock is a species with which I have a love-hate relationship. For the most part I love them. The hate bit comes in when the alarm goes off in the middle of the night and the last … Continue reading

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Naturally motivated

There has been a lot written and discussed about why we are motivated to go out and take pictures of nature – after all its a pretty pointless exercise in the most part. It perhaps satisfies a natural ‘hunter’ instinct … Continue reading

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Jackdaws – setting up home.

For the past few weeks the jackdaws in my garden have been very vocal with their loud ‘jack, jack, jack’ calls and there has been a frenzy of activity around the various nest sites as they, at first, squabbled over … Continue reading

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Finnish sky at night

Matters of the universe, space and other ‘unearthly’ goings on are, for the most part, well beyond my levels of comprehension. I guess I’m not alone on that one. I find programmes like ‘Wonders of the Universe’ currently showing on … Continue reading

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Grousing around!

This morning I got up at the unearthly hour of 3.00am setting off under a setting half moon across the Grampian mountains to a windswept patch of moorland where I hoped to witness one of the spectacles of the birding … Continue reading

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