As some of you have probably gathered from my recent posts, the beach at Puerto del Carmen was pretty good for co-operative waders. On one morning I found a greenshank, who I managed to creep just close enough to for some nice photos. I got some ‘in the habitat’ shots, which show the volcanic rocks.…
I had to post this pic from Donna Nook today. Don’t worry its not stuck, just being curious. Taken with my new 35mm macro.
A quick photo, which sadly isn’t the best. When I was photographing the cattle egrets featured a couple of posts ago, I flushed a bird, which turned out to be a stone curlew, something I had always wanted to see. I was right near the Northern edge of Costa Teguise, which was a surprise as…
AFter my trip to Gilfach, I and some friends meet up at Gigrin farm. The weather did not look great and in fact only got more cloudy and darker as the red kite feeding time drew nearer and just sadly continued to get worse as they were fed. However having a camera with good High…
I had a trip to the Rhayader area of Wales over the weekend. The first stop was Gilfach Farm where we waited for salmon to jump up the waterfall, but had no luck. I did photograph the water fall though: Although we didn’t see them jumping, I did see 2 female salmon nest building, where…
In the same area as the cattle egrets, I came across these Berthelot’s pipits. And some more on a lawn near a hotel in Costa Teguise.
When I was in Lanzarote on the outskirts of Costa Teguise I finally got a good view of a couple of cattle egrets. They were hunting for grasshoppers in the dry stony habitat that dominates the island.
Here are a couple from my trip to Goring back in May. I finally got a half decent pic of a garden chafer. I also found and photographed my first true cardinal beetle, seperated from the other Pyrochroa species by its black head.
On the same morning as the last post I came across a number of sanderlings. I got a close up. And various angles I also saw some turnstones
Some more shots on Lanzarote. First thing almost every morning, as the sun came up, I headed down to the beach. It was when the ebach was emptiest which meant not only was there more wildlife around, but it was also safer to be walking around with a long lense. On this particular mornign I…