Travel Reports

 I returned home on the 25 May after a successful three week visit to Ranthambhore.  My visit was tinged with sadness over the tragic loss of Sundari (T.17) the tigress that had dominated the area of the lakes and had given birth to three cubs about a year ago. Although not confirmed it appears that she was either poached or killed by villagers. Her former home range has now been taken over by her sister Krishna (T.19) who I saw many times during my visit. The good news is that Macha ...

In February I returned to Norway for one week concentrating my efforts from a hide in photographing the mighty Golden Eagle on a snow covered mountain.  In addition and from a hide deep in the forest I managed to take photographs of the beautiful and rare Goshawk. Before leaving Norway I was also able to take images of Wolves, Lynx and Moose amongst the snow covered terrain-all of which can be seen by following this 'Link' to the 'Picture Gallery' ...

This visit to Ranthambambhore was to be the last time that I was to see and photograph one of my favourite tigress's  known as T.17.  She was one of three female cubs born to Ranthambhore's famous tigress 'Machali' in 2006.  My jeep discretly followed her on a number of ocassions from the lakes to high ground where it became obvious that she was returning to her litter of tiny cubs. The photograph shows this beautiful tigress as she was about to join her well hid ...

During Autumn I travelled through the States of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming to spend time photographing the beautiful scenery and wildlife in these wonderful parks.  Due to the unseasonally warm weather many of the animals that I had hoped to see remained on high ground but the magnificent scenery and changing Autumn colours was beathtaking. A small number of my photographs can be seen by following this 'LINK' to the Gallery section of my website.  ...

With most of the tiger reserves In India closed until after the monsoon I took the opportunity to fly to Norway in July for 5 days to photograph the White Tailed Eagles on the Norwegian fjords. I was extremely lucky to see and photograph these magnificent raptors as they soared in the sky close to my boat and then dived to catch fish in the water below.  A small selection of my photographs can be seen by following this 'LINK' to the Picture Gallery secti ...

I departed for India on 6 May returning once again to Ranthambhore National Park where I remained for almost three weeks.  It was a wonderful experience to return to the tiger reserve that means so much to me and which I have visited many times over the past few years.  I enjoyed many memorable tiger sightings totalling twelve different tigers seen within the tourist area of the park during this visit. Of particular interest to me was seeing the well known and now aged tigress T.16 ( ...

I arrived at Bandhavgarh on the 27 February for a two week stay. During my time spent at the reserve, I enjoyed some excellent tiger sightings including a distant view of B2 (Sundar) as he walked the hills and through the dense forest on his way to visit the 'Mirchani' tiger family (a tigress-together with her three sub-adult cubs that he had sired).  In the early morning of the 2 March, I saw the Siddhababa tigress as she patrolled her home range and was pleased to note that the ...

I returned home at the end of August from the west coast of the USA having spent time in Katmai National Park photographing the Brown (Grizzly) bears.  They were concentrating their efforts trying to catch Pacific salmon, which make their way up the rivers and streams to spawn.  Each year the salmon attempt this hazardous journey to return to their place of birth where the female lays her eggs - these are fertilized by the males before both sexes die from exhaustion after their arduo ...

I arrived at Bandhavgarh on 22 May with the main objective to photograph the Jhurjura tigress together with her three cubs (about 6 month old).  However, on arrival I was told that on the evening of the 18 May persons had illegally entered the park for a "night drive" and had mortally wounded the tigress by repeatedly hitting her with the vehicle in which they were travelling. At the time of writing this report, the tragic event is under investigation by the relevant authorities ...

I have just returned from a successful visit to Ranthambhore national park - it is early April 2010.  My trip was over a period of twenty days from the latter part of March.  Leaving cold and wet England I was happy to be heading to the warmth and looking forward to catching up with the tigers of India.  On this occasion, I photographed eight different tigers and talking to my guide I was able to update myself with news of those that I had seen before and newcomers!  Machal ...