Wildlife Photography across the Water: Trip Reports - North Uist

Monday 5 July 2010

Trip Reports - North Uist - Flora

As promised in previous posts, I said I would put up some images of some of the flora that we saw on North Uist. Most of the time we were looking for bird life, so I mostly used the wettish part of the Friday to fill in a few natural history record shots.

Lady's Smock

Marsh Marigold

Bog Bean

Wideer view of Bog Bean in water margin

Birds Foot Trefoil

Not a brilliant specimen of Butterwort

Tormentil

Honeydew

Marsh Lousewort

Viola (not sure of sub species - any advice?)

Northern Marsh Orchid

I was hoping to find the Hebridean Marsh Orchid, a very rare and localised species, but we were too early in the year. We did find this Northern Marsh spike, among a few. This was the most advanced, which I took on the Thursday in later evening light.

I wish I had carried out a slightly more detailed coverage of the flowers on the machair, particularly near Balranald, but looks like we will have to get back there again next year.

Next post will cover a bit of the geography and topology of the islands.

Good book for helping identify flowers species, that I used to help with the above.

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.