Oscar writes: The recent 4 or 5 days of cold weather in the UK saw me spend most of that time at my local nature reserve hoping to photograph Bitterns. Unfortunately I didn’t have much success, and one morning spent over 4 hours lying on the frozen ground hoping for this bird to come out…
Category: THE PHOTOGRAPHS: by Tim Melling, Oscar Dewhurst, Paul Leyland, Guy Shorrock, Brian Leecey
Oscar Dewhurst – Red-breasted Merganser
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Oscar Dewhurst – Stonechats
Oscar writes: While walking through a heathland last year I came across a family of Stonechats moving through the heather. I positioned myself slightly ahead of them and waited for them to come closer, which, luckily for me, they did. This image shows the two young birds perched on top of a clump of…
Oscar Dewhurst – Common Tern
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Oscar writes: This bird was repeatedly fishing from in front of the hide I was sitting it. The usual problem with birds is that they’re too far away, but it certainly didn’t apply here! Instead the bird often plunged into the water so close to the hide that it was too close to focus…
Oscar Dewhurst – Bittern
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Oscar writes: While I was in Suffolk I wanted to photograph a Bittern against a backdrop of reed heads in nice light. On my third morning I was waiting for a female to pass by me on one of her feeding flights. I’d been standing there since dawn, and it was only an hour before…
Oscar Dewhurst – Kittiwake
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Oscar writes: These Kittiwakes were nesting offshore but would come to the islands on the scrape to collect nesting material This was taken just as one was coming into land. Nikon D800, Nikon 600mm f4 AFS-II lens
Oscar Dewhurst – Stonechat
Oscar writes: While in Richmond Park one morning I came across a group of Stonechats moving through the bracken. With a bit of patience, one landed close to me, allowing me to get this image of it. Nikon D800, Nikon 600mm f4 AFS-II, Nikon 1.4x TC
Oscar Dewhurst – Red Deer stag roaring
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Oscar writes: This was taken before the sun came up in Richmond Park. I wanted to include both the stag and some females, and getting the male roaring was something I also wanted to show the story of this time of year for the deer. Nikon D800, Nikon 200-400mm f4 VR
Oscar Dewhurst – Hobby
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Oscar writes: I’d spent the earlier part of the morning at Richmond Park photographing the deer rut, and when the mist had cleared and the sun was too high I headed to the pen ponds where I heard that a couple of juvenile Hobbies were hunting low over the water and often flying right…
Oscar Dewhurst – Red Deer
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Oscar writes: Red Deer in golden mist: Just before I headed off to Durham to start university last week, I paid a couple of visits to Richmond Park. On one of the mornings there was a thick layer of mist covering the ground and by shooting into the rising sun it gave it a lovely…