Wildlife Photography across the Water: New Garden moths (and some old)

Tuesday 7 June 2011

New Garden moths (and some old)

A couple of blogs ago, I said I would bring some of the cracking little moths that I had been lucky enough to attract in the garden via the moth trap.

So here they are

Angle Shades

Small Magpie

Beautiful Hook Tip

Elephant Hawk (first one this year)

Buff Tip

I was really pleased to get this last one. Approximately 25 mm long, with its wings at rest it aims to disguise itself as a broken birch twig. I didn't have any birch but have use a small hazel withy as the prop for this one.

These were from last weekend when it also looks like we got another Warwickshire first.

Jac and I went for a walk round a local SSSI on Sunday morning and were thrilled to see a Humming Bird Hawk Moth. I put my record into the Butterfly Conservation Warwickshire, and it looks like we got the first one for the County on that site this year.

Right off to watch Sprinwatch now and check out the Skomer Puffins. Maybe I should dig out some of my archive images for those little beauties if you would like to see them

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.