Travel Reports

 I recently spent a week on the Island of Mull in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. The purpose of my visit was to photograph Otters (Lutra lutra) and other wildlife. Although the weather can be very changeable at this time of year, I was still able to spend many hours photographing these busy little musteilids as they worked their way up and down the shoreline in seach of small fish and crustaceans. It was fascinating to watch them bringing their larger catches on to the shore and then tuckin ...

I enjoyed an excellent 2 weeks in India from the 24th October 2019 where my time was spent at Pench and Tadoba tiger reserves. There were a number of memorable tiger sightings at both reserves but for me perhaps the most interesting was at Tadoba where on 2 ocassions I was privilaged to see and photograph tigress Choti Tara with her 3 small cubs. My last day at the tiger reserve I was not to be disappointed as after waiting patiently for over 1 hour the tigress appeared through the beautiful l ...

Sadly my March two week visit to India where I was to spend time at Ranthambhore and Corbett National parks was very quickly curtailed due to an injury to my leg which caused me to book an earlier flight home. However I am pleased to say that I am now feeling very much better and hope that I might be able to return to the 'Land of the Tiger' later this year. During the first two days that I spent at Ranthambhore I enjoyed some lovely sightings of a young male tiger and also a Sloth bea ...

I arrived at my lodge overlooking the Cuiaba river on the 8 October. This was my third visit to The Pantanal, Brazil, a huge wetland area approximately the size of France.  The top predator here is the Jaguar, the third largest feline in the world. During my ten days here photographing wildlife, we saw ...

I arrived in Finland on the 7 July for a four day trip to photograph brown bears.    Using four different hides which were located close to the Russian/Finnish border, I was rewarded with many sightings.  I watched mother bears encouraging their cubs to climb trees to avoid danger, older male bears ...

I returned to this interesting tiger reserve on the 17 March where I remained for eight days.  I enjoyed some wonderful wildlife sightings and managed to see nine different tigers .  Perhaps the highlight for me was time spent in the buffer zone.  In May of last year I had seen and photographed the tigress Madhuri and her four three month old cubs.  Ten months on, I was ho ...

After leaving Tadoba, I moved to Pench for my remaining five days in India.  Sadly the tiger sightings at this reserve were not so numerous.  Nevertheless I managed to photograph some of the park's beautiful indigenous wildlife.  A photographic opportunity presented itself!  A young leopard, about 12 months old, was sitting on a rocky outcrop together with her sibling and mother nearby.  Above is an image of the leopard as she looked down at me from her vantage poi ...

Leaving Delhi on the 20 November, I arrived at Bandhavgarh for a stay of seven days. During this time I enjoyed many wildlife sightings, however, perhaps the most unusual encounter for me was with three sub-adult male tigers of the Rajbahera tigress in the Maghdi range area of the park. One of the siblings walked across the sandy track a short distance into the forest and then reappeared carrying a pickaxe in his jaw which he proceeded to carry past his brothers into the adjoining meadow. A fe ...

Last Thursday while waiting to photograph Kingfishers at a large lake in West Sussex I was amazed to watch a Carrion Crow sucessfully catch a fish by diving into the water.  The crow flew very low over the lake before diving head first into the water and then emerge with a Roach in its beak!  The bird then flew to an overhanging branch at the edge of the lake where it put the fish out of its misery before devouring its prey.  I can only think that the clever crow had studied and ...

A second visit for me to this wonderful wildlife park where I was hoping to photograph Ospreys as they went about their daily search for fish in the clear waters of the Cairngorms.  During my visit, each day I was fortunate enough to photograph these magnificent raptors as they swooped down into the water to grab Brown trout.  A picture of a successful dive can be seen above and more in the  ...