Oscar writes: These Avocet chicks were taken at Minsmere this Spring. I’ve never seen them close – to get them so near the hide was a good start to the morning! Nikon D800, Nikon 600mm f/4 AF-S II lens, Nikon 1.4x TC Mark writes: Awwww!! It’s good to have Oscar back after his exams –…
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Oscar Dewhurst – Squirrel Monkey
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Oscar Dewhurst: One day while I was walking back to the research station in Peru I came across a troop of Squirrel Monkeys leaping through the trees above the trail. Luckily they were fairly low down and this one paused before carrying on. Nikon D800, Nikon 200-400mm f/4 VR lens
Oscar Dewhurst – Blue Tit
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Oscar writes: In Suffolk one morning the reed beds took on a wonderful golden colour due to the low sun and carpet of mist across the tops of the reeds. I desperately wanted to find something to photograph in this gorgeous light, and fortunately I noticed a group of blue tits feeding on the reed…
Oscar Dewhurst – Red-capped Cardinal
Oscar writes: One of the commoner birds around the oxbow lakes in Peru was the Red-capped Cardinal. They would perch in the vegetation on the lake margins allowing for a fairly close approach in the boat. If I got too close the group would all take off and noisily fly across the lake. Nikon D300s,…
Oscar Dewhurst – Blue-capped Tanager
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Oscar writes: In the cloud forest of Peru these Blue-capped Tanagers were ubiquitous and regularly passed through the scrub just outside my room at the research station I was staying at. One afternoon I just stood and waited and before long I had a group of these birds posing on gorgeous lichen-encrusted branches for me!…
Oscar Dewhurst – Grass Green Tanager
Oscar writes: While I was in Peru I spent a week at a research station nearly 3500m up in the cloud forest. One of the birds I most wanted to see was the Grass-Green Tanager, purely because of their colour! I was therefore delighted when this one perched up no more than 5 metres from…
Oscar Dewhurst – Red Deer
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Oscar writes: I only live 15 minute’s drive from Richmond Park, so find myself there fairly regularly each Autumn for the Red Deer rut. It’s not uncommon to come across over 100 photographers on a weekend, but on the morning this was taken it was considerably quieter. I found this stag strutting his stuff in an…
Oscar Dewhurst – Cormorant
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Oscar writes: Last winter I spent several days photographing Cormorants in the centre of London at a spot where they would fish throughout the day. The picture I really wanted to get was one where a bird had a fish in its beak. It was harder than it sounds, however, as within a…
Oscar Dewhurst – Fox
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Oscar writes: this image is one from a project on Foxes a couple of years ago. I stumbled across them by chance more than anything, and over the next few months was able to build up a nice portfolio of images of them as they were very confiding. This was taken fairly early on. Nikon…
Oscar Dewhurst – Puffin
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Oscar writes: A couple of summers ago I was on holiday in Scotland, and managed to get to the Isle of May, an island which harbours a large seabird colony, for a couple of days. You only get a few hours on the island, so after I’d spent some time photographing the Arctic Terns, which I’d…