Standing up for Nature
Oscar writes: This is a bird I’ve never photographed before, so on my last morning in Suffolk I spent a few hours just wandering through the woodland trying to find them. It took a while, and trying to manoeuvre 800mm of lens onto something so small took some doing, but by the time I drove…
Oscar writes; most of my Easter holiday was spent revising for exams, although I did manage to get out to Suffolk for a week to do some photography. While sitting in one of the hides on Minsmere’s scrape two Oystercatchers started wheeling round in front of the hide. I had to contort myself into various…
Oscar writes: I was in Suffolk hoping to photograph Bitterns, but unfortunately had no luck whatsoever, and only saw two in the week, both at a distance of about 200m! Luckily there were plenty of other things to photograph, like this Little Egret. It is in fact the same individual I photographed from the same…
Oscar writes: This was taken on a very overcast day last month in Suffolk. I was watching this Black-tailed Godwit pulling worms out of the ground but it was in a very cluttered bit of the water so I couldn’t photograph it. Luckily for me it soon came out and started feeding in the open….
Oscar writes: This is the same bear that has been in a previous image, but was taken slightly before that one. We had stopped the car at a spot called Oxbow Bend, from where you can look out onto the Snake River. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a head just above…
Oscar writes: This image was taken at the same place as the Moose in last week’s photo. It was our last morning before we headed back to the UK that evening, so again we decided to spent a couple of hours at a spot overlooking the Snake River. There was a lovely layer of mist…
Oscar writes: On our last evening in the Tetons, we spent a couple of hours at a spot where in the previous two days we had seen Elk, Otters, Beavers, Grizzly Bears, Bald Eagles, Kingfishers and Moose. Parking up and getting out we saw that there were a few people standing on the river bank…
Oscar writes: Nearly two years ago now I was on holiday with my family in Kenya, more specifically around the Masai Mara. Rather than actually staying inside the main park, we stayed in conservancies, areas where the number of beds are tightly regulated, meaning you can drive around all day and see only a couple…
Oscar writes: Early April last year saw me in Suffolk hoping to photograph Bitterns. Unfortunately I had no luck with them and they stayed very elusive for the duration of my stay. Luckily this Little Egret was a lot more cooperative, spending a lot of time feeding in the new green reeds in front of…
Oscar writes: As we approached the end of our time in America, one animal I hadn’t managed to get any photos of was the Pronghorn. The second fastest land animal on the planet, it can run up to 54 miles per hour and despite closely resembling antelopes, isn’t actually in their family. On one of…