RSPB Old Moor 20/5/13

Warning this blog contains lots of Black Headed Gulls,

it was about the only thing i shot all day,well 3 hours anyway.

The garden hide had less action than my own garden,very quiet.

Did visit a lot of the hides but the path to the reed bed hides were closed,not exactly sure why maybe the bittern was nesting.

All shots from the Field Pool West Hide.

Was mainly practicing my flying shots.

 This little fellow (Little Grebe) was being dive bombed by the Gull.

Family outing for some Canada Geese.

Perfect form from a Black Headed Gull.

Long Tailed Tit wasn't really set up or expecting this

 but managed to snap a shot before it took off.

Again Thanks for looking.

Cheers al.

Twycross Zoo 19/5/13

Just had a few hours at Twycross Zoo.

Went to see the new enclosure for the Amur Leopards,all they have done is put the Chimps in one of the Gorilla houses and moved the Leopards to the old Chimp enclosure.

Still needs money investing into updating some of the enclosures (IMO).

That said it was a nice hot sunny day for once.

The highlight was the baby Bonobo Lopori,very active and loved coming close to the glass to see everyone.

Only took 12 pics and decided to keep just 6 of those so not a good day picture wise,but enjoyed it all the same.

This is Baby Bononbo Lopori

 Lowes Guenon

 Red Faced Spider Monkey 

And a Ringtail Lemur.

They now have a walk through Lemur enclosure.

Hope you liked the shots and thanks for looking.

Yorkshire Wildlife Park 1/5/13

A few shots from the Wildlife Park from Wednesday including my first sighting this year of a Mistle Thrush,new addition to the Park a not so very old Eland and the Black Kite had a quick training session.

 Mistle Thrush

 

Baby Eland

Black Kite

Painted Hunting Dog

Amur Leopard (Nice to see him upright for a change)

Amur Tiger

All in all a nice quiet midweek park visit,enjoyed every minute.

Thanks for looking.

April's Shots and News.

First off finally got some sales on the website,8 full size big cat images.

The sales from these were shared between: 

ALTA(Amur Leopard,Tiger Alliance) Paypal £20 donated.

Hull and East Riding Ferret Rescue Paypal £10 donated and

WWF Paypal £5 donated.

Thanks again to Lasma at Picanova who purchased the images.

And now some Pictures taken in April.

First off a couple of shots from Old Moor RSPB at Brampton,South Yorkshire,UK.

Coot

Reed Bunting

Next up some shots from the Yorkshire Wildlife Park,Doncaster,South Yorkshire,UK

Vlad the Amur Tiger

Goldcrest taken near the Wallabies

Next,Clumber Park,Worksop,UK.

Chaffinch

Coal-Tit

Great -Tit

Tufted Duck

And finally  Shots from the Shed

Blue-Tit

Common Starling

 The one above got photo of the day on the Official BBC Springwatch Flickr Group
which i'm very pleased about,some great photo's in that group.

My Graden Birdwatch in April was done on the 24/04/13 at 10.30-11.30
and here is the list of the birds i saw.
Blackbird
Blue-tit
Chaffinch
Collared Dove
Common Starling
Dunnock
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
House Sparrow
Robin
Song Thrush
Woodpigeon

The,the,the thats all folks,thanks for looking.
Cheers Al.

Shots from the shed.

Started to set the garden up so I can try to use the shed as an hide, here's the first couple I took in march, gonna try to keep this updated every couple of months at least, thanks for looking.