Avon Wildlife Trust - News Letter - Summer

Its always nice to know your images are going to a good casue and one of our best-loved wild creatures the hedgehog is under increasing threat.
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http://www.wildhedgehogs.org.uk/

Pond skater, common water-strider

Took time out today whilst working on my final proofs for my book to see what was going on in my parents pond. You can tells spring...

Easter Rabbits

Yet again another blog which is not in the city of Bristol...sorry, but its close. These photos were taken just on the outskirts yesterday evening in a village called Felton. I m living here for a couple weeks so most of the images will be from the country side...sorry.

These pictures were hard to get. I have been after some rabbit shots and seeing it was Easter Monday yesterday I thought I would give it go.

I headed out with my camera and a 100mm -400mm lens looking for rabbits in field which would have spring flowers giving the back and fore ground a spring and summery feel. After finding that field and seeing lots of rabbits in the location I lead on my front and waited near a rabbit warren after a couple of min utes and the rabbits started to appear. I slowly edged towards the rabbits trying to hide in the grass so the rabbits could not see me after a while I managed to get close enough to start taking images. After 2 hours and lots of insects bites I decided to call it day and headed home. Here are a few of the images I took.

Red kite update

After my blog on the Red kite I saw gliding over my parents home on Sunday afternoon I was email by a person which had seen a couple of posters stuck around the village of Felton. It seems a bird handler on Felton common was flying a harris hawk and the bird seemed to disappear! From what I gather the bird is still lose in this location.

Fingers crossed the bird is reunited with its handler.

Red kite

After I blogged about this Red kite today I spoke to local villager in Felton and it seems a bird of prey escaped from a handler on Felton common recently....maybe this is that bird?

Red Kite, Somerset

2o minutes ago I was sat in my parents garden in Felton, Somerset when I saw a large bird of prey heading over their garden. I ran in side grabbed my camera and headed back out into their garden, right above me was this bird. I managed to get a couple of shots before the bird disappeared. It was only when I loaded the images onto my computer I saw that it was a Red Kite! I never herd of a Red kite being spotted in Somerset so near Bristol. Amazing this made my week. Finger crossed I will see this beautiful bird again!

Brandon Hill Nature Researve

Brandon Hill Nature park is great location for relaxing or taking photos. I headed there today with only 20 mins to spare. I love walking around this park on a bank holiday in the sun is great way to burn a couple of hours. I managed to get a couple of pics of a  Song Thrush (Turdus Philomelos) a beautiful bird.

First Blog! Badgers in Bristol

Welcome to my first blog! This being and urban wildlife blog I will try to keep all the content within the city of Bristol.

And my first blog is just about inside Bristol on the outskirts of Bedminster, Last night I headed down to a Badger set I  photographed last year in the late summer. I was spending many of hours waiting and getting the odd couple of shots. I invested in a camera trap which was great and I got some really interesting images of Badgers, Roe Deer, Mice, Rats and even a cat! But a couple of months ago it was stolen from a garden in Bristol!

So I headed back down to the huge set complex and waited and waited and waited, no badgers that night but I got a couple of nice bluebell and spider shots whilst I was waiting.

 

I will be heading back down soon after work trying to get some more images of badgers and maybe this years young....fingers crossed.

I will be heading back down soon after work trying to get some more images of badgers and maybe this years young....fingers crossed.