Wildlife Photography across the Water: Fungi season is well and truly here

Saturday 2 October 2010

Fungi season is well and truly here

I took a walk out in my local woods this morning. It was bright, but very very wet under foot after a day of torrential rain yesterday. But as I was hoping, this year is a good season for fungi. There was so much about from tiny mycena to many much larger clumps of them on logs, and a lot of earth based fungi.

I took my 1Dmk3 and a couple of macro lenses, and will bring you some images on my next post when I have had a chance to process them.

In other local wildlife news and sightings, it was great to see a Grey Wagtail in the middle of Stratford on Thursday morning when I walked to the train station.

I noted some high up House Martins over the house about thirty minutes ago - the last of the migrants?, while at lower level a group of Starlings were harrying a cruising Sparrowhawk out of their airspace.

I am hoping to get out and about with the bigger lens tomorrow, but we will have to see what the weather brings. the forecast is not looking good at the moment............again.

Well if I get stuck at home I can get some of those images processed to share with you.

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.