Wildlife Photography across the Water: Local Patch

Saturday 8 August 2009

Local Patch - Garden News (again)

Well as I said before, decorating is the main activity so I keep an eye out the window for my wildlife fix now.

This week has been interesting on the butterfly front. At the last time of writing on this, you couldn't move for Painted Ladies. Well a couple of days after that, it was Whites - Large, Small and Green Veined - up to fifty again either on the food - buddleia amongst others.

Today was the day of the Peacock - suddenly there were about twenty five, plus quite a few Small Tortoiseshells. It has been fascinating watching the different cycles of these.

But there have been a few other firsts of note this week. Today saw my first White Admiral in the garden, plus a female Common Darter dragonfly, with a male a few days before.

There have been reports of swarms of ladybirds - well we haven't seen swarms here, but there are certainly more than at any other time of the year.

Wasps get a bad press quite often, and they have been very busy eating up the pears that have splits in them.

So a few images of things I don't think I have posted before on the blog from the garden.

Female Common Blue

Native Species White Pond Lilly
Taken using HTP
See this post for technique

Large White

Small Tortoiseshell

Wasps in the Pears

and again

Martin

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Bio's

David Courtenay, a self taught wildlife and nature photographer, has been capturing images for over 30 years. He has had a passion for wildlife since early childhood and remembers being glued to the television whenever Survival, Wildlife on One and other natural history documentaries were shown. In the 2006 he swapped his established career for the life of a wildlife photographer, such a move demands a measure of uncompromising passion and commitment.

David has travelled extensively throughout Europe as well as spending more than 7 months in India working with local guides and trackers in search of Bengal Tiger, Asian One horned Rhino and Asian Elephant. He has also photographed Wildlife in Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Sumatra, Africa, Canada and America. Working closely with Conservation companies he tries to raise funds to help Wildlife that has been put on the endangered list by poaching and habitation loss

Martin Dyer has had a passion for avian wildlife since childhood, particularly raptors. Photography was also another keen interest and it was with the specific availability and control of the whole process that digital offers that Martin was then able to combine the two in 2003. Based in the UK, Martin is a regular visitor to Scotland, specifically the Isle of Mull to watch the Eagles resident there. Other trips to Europe and around the UK are usually part of Martin’s agenda in a typical year.

However, as a firm believer on making the most of the local patch, Martin has spent a lot of time and hard work creating a wildlife garden which is reaping the rewards with many new species and varieties of wildlife. A keen member of a number of wildlife photographic groups, Martin is keen to expand his portfolio into other areas of wildlife, and has already established a wide portfolio of images of fungi.