Wildlife Photography across the Water: Goose Fest - Slimbridge Trip

Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Goose Fest - Slimbridge Trip - Part 4

The winter months are a great time to get to Slimbridge or any of the WWT reserves as the wintering Geese and Swans seek food away from their frozen Northern breeding areas. So my two recent day trips to Slimbrdige were made just in time before they start returning to their summer homes.

In my two recent trips, I was fortunate enough to see four species of Geese and so here are a few images to share with you.

European White Fronts

Barnacle

Canada at touchdown - look out Pochard

Greylag flyby

Greylag displaying behaviour to female just off shot

Greylag - final approach

Greylag - moment of splashdown

All with 7D and either 500 or 500 + 1.4. It was a shame that the Barnacles - the flock was about thirty, and the White Fronts were far away but the sound and sights were wonderful

Martin

1 comment:

Kah-Wai Lin9 March 2011 at 07:29
The touch down shot is really cool!

Kah Wai
http://kwbirding.blogspot.com/
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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.