Wildlife Photography across the Water: Local Patch - Wildlife on the Christmas Day walk

Saturday, 26 December 2009

Local Patch - Wildlife on the Christmas Day walk

We went out for the usual walk on Christmas day late morning, with camera and binos to hand - you know just in case.

Great sightings of Reed Bunting, Buzzard, Goldfinch, Long Tailed Tit plus the winter thrushes.

Best moment was a real close up encounter with a Male Green Woodpecker who was grubbing around for food where the sun had started to thaw the ground. Surprisingly the lock cutting on the River Avon had frozen over quite thickly so no Kingfishers down there.

Back into the town at Stratford, I was surprised and pleased to see a Great Crested Grebe on the main busy part of the river. I guess it's usual lake habitats have frozen over solid and it needed to find a moving body of water.

So after a Guinness in the Dirty Duck it was back home. Will post a couple of the images later next week as time is against me now

Happy Boxing Day :-)

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.