Wildlife Photography across the Water: Frog Blog Pt7

Saturday 10 April 2010

Frog Blog Pt7 - We have free swimmers

With the wonderful warmth of the last few days, the tadpoles are now well advanced with a good number of free swimmers.

Many have hatched out from their spawn, but have taken refuge with hundreds of their buddies in the centre of the spawn raft.

Excuse the grass clippings - I mowed a walkway path around the wildlife garden last night.

Elsewhere in the garden, I cam across another two adults and one juvenile frog when I was doing some clearance work this morning, so they have now found their way to the pond.

The Blackthorn blossom is coming on well, and all of my other hedge plants are in full bud or early leaf.

When I went to Upton Warrena nd Brandon Marsh the other week, post and images here, I heard and saw a number of Chiff Chaff and Willow Warbler, but for me I feel that spring doesn't properly arrive until I hear them from my own bed.

It was wonderful waking up this morning to hear Chiff Chaff calling from the bottom of the garden.

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.