HOWARD'S BIRDSPOT: 2014

Thursday, 17 July 2014

Wednesday, 16 July 2014

Bearded Readling Juvenile. 15.7.14.

Bearded Readling Juvenile.

Monday, 7 July 2014

Bearded Tit Juvenile taken at Far Ings 7.7.14.

Quite a few beadies around this morning at Far Ings. Managed to grab a few shots from the path before they were off. A few flocks came through, but never hanging around long.

Monday, 23 June 2014

Far Ings Nature Reserve 23.6.14.

Female marsh Harrier, Bearded Readling juveniles and Blue-tailed Damselfly

Sunday, 15 June 2014

Bittern and Marsh Harrier 12.6.14.

Saturday, 14 June 2014

Local Kestrel Nest Box 14.6.14

Local nest box with Kestrel young. At least 4 possibly 5 young.

Thursday, 17 April 2014

Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Puffin at Bempton Cliffs 12.4.14.

Sunday, 13 April 2014

Far Ings Marsh Harrier display

A few distant shots of Marsh Harrier display over barton reed bed early this morning. Spectacular acrobatics. Great to see and watch.

Sunday, 9 March 2014

Snipe and Kingfisher at Far Ings 9.3.14.

Managed to get out for a few hours today, not a great day photography wise but I enjoyed it none the less. A pleasant, bright sunny day at Far Ings. I heard a Bittern booming on my way along the Humber bank. Not the first to be heard on Far Ings this year as they've been booming a couple of weeks by all accounts, but still a nice to hear and a sign that the spring and summer is approaching us again.

Friday, 3 January 2014

Great Northern Diver Scarborough 3.1.14.

HOWARD'S BIRDSPOT

Hello and welcome to my blog. Firstly, I am not a professional photographer or a bird or wildlife expert. Most of what I have learned about photography and wildlife or birds is self taught from books or what I have learned from friends and wildlife photographers and birders. I owe a lot of my sucess to friends and photographers for their guidance. I am still learning and have many subjects I still want to photograph. I am very passionate about birding and bird photography. All of my subjects are wild birds or wildlife in the wild. I do not photograph captive birds or wildlife in a staged setting. It's just not my thing. I get no satisfaction from photographing captive sujects. That's not being disrespectful to those who do, I'm just not comfortable with it, and would rather go without pictures of rare subjects than take photos of captive ones. I do however respect the work of captive breeding programs and caring for injured birds and wildlfe. I belong to the local bird study group which records breeding birds on my local reserve. This has helped me to gain increased results in locating species to photograph from an increased knoledge of birdsong and bird behaviour. I have enjoyed increasing sucsess with my work in having work published in books and magazines including birdwatching magazine, in national newspapers and countless web features and articles. I was also the winner of the 2011 wildlifextra.com national photography competition "birds" category. leading to the publishing of the winning picture in the competitions book. The same picture is liscensced for sale by Getty Images through the Wildlfe and wetland trust, who featured my photo in a published article. My photo's have featured many times on flickr explore. I have also had pictures feature on the BBC springwatch red button site on television and have received the Springwatch photo of the day award. I've also had them used during the BBC and ITV weather forecasts and on the BBC Earth and BBC Nature websites. I also featured in a BBCTV look north feature shown on BBC 1 about my competition win and my love of photography on the Far Ings Nature Reserve. Thank you for visiting, and I hope you enjoy viewing my pictures. Please feel free to contact me with regard to using any of my images. I rarely refuse, but do like to know where my images are being used. I don't sell my images in print format due to the fact that I don't have the time at the moment as I am in full time employment. If you have any questions regarding my photography please contact me via email.

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