Wildlife Photography across the Water: Mini Trip Report - Part 2

Thursday 14 October 2010

Mini Trip Report - Part 2 - Gigrin Farm

In this part of the trip report, I am just going to do a short piece on the location and share some pcitures of the the hides, and in particular the new photo hide.

Now there is absolutely stacks of information on their website so you can browse this for hours.

It is located in just about the centre of Wales just half of a mile outside Rhayader on the A470 to the south east - ignore the red blob on the link. If you zoom in on the OS map you will see it.

I went there just about three years ago with a number of other photographers and we block booked both of their then new photographic hides. One at ground level and one raised known as the Tower Hide.

They have since added to this with the Big Tower hide, which as the name suggests is even bigger and gives a more impressive view.

Rates vary from £10 to £20 dependant on which hide you choose to take. This last weekend we used the Big Tower on both occasions. They can get booked up so it is worth a call to check availability before you go

View of the hides from the Big Tower Hide

View out from the Big Tower

In the Big Tower Hide - plenty of room

All these images were taken with the little Panasonic P & S camera on the crappy weather Saturday!!

And in a first for me on the blog a few movie clips. Now these are really quite poor and straight out of the Panasonic again the first one taken on the poorly lit Saturday, but it gives you an idea of the sort of activity that you can see andd the type of flying by the birds. You will see lots of corvids and you can also feeel sorry for the Buzzard. This is fairly typical for them getting hammered by the Kites

In my next part I will share some of the better Kite images that I got on the sunny Sunday, which I hope you will agree when you see then are much better than the video.

Martin

1 comment:

sebi_256914 October 2010 at 06:51
very nice your blog, and photo; congratulations
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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.