Wildlife Photography across the Water: New Garden Arrivals

Sunday, 25 March 2012

New Garden Arrivals

One of the great floral sights at this time of year can be found in a large meadow on the Oxfordshire at Iffley with a great swathe of native SnakesheadFritillary flowers.

As I blogged recently here, I have a few of these coming up in the wildlife garden now. Bought as bulbs from native UK stock in the autumn, I planted them last year and have waited patiently for them to appear.

With the warm weather of Friday and yesterday, they have now started to show properly.

Saturday afternoon - emerging still with slightly harsh sunlight

This morning before the sun was over the fence line, and still with the dew

There are a few more to come out yet. They will never replicate the beautiful meadows of this rare in the wild plant, but it is nice to have my own small patch of them.

In the more shady part of the garden, the bluebell spikes are showing well, with wood anemones, cowslip and Lords and Ladies showing too. Hoping it is going to be a good garden year for wildflowers

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.