Typically seen as a ghostly silhouette, flitting through summer nights at speed, this Brown Long-Eared Bat has been frozen in time by a high-speed flash, providing an opportunity to see these remarkable creatures in glorious detail. Brown Long-Eared bats are one of the most common and widely distributed species in the UK, and are typically […]
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We’ve just experienced an eruption of Seven-spot Ladybirds in our garden; there are literally hundreds of them. This has prompted me to dust off my macro lens and flash to try a little macro photography. The gallery below includes both day and night images. The spiders are common Garden and Long-jawed spiders. Macro reveals so
Last weekend, I spent a night in a hide designed specifically for owl photography — in this case, Tawny Owls. These owls, while entirely wild, have become habituated to the site and are accustomed to both LED lighting and flash photography. The hide is set on the edge of farmland, with suitably atmospheric perches: gate
I just had to share this image of a female badger. Like much of the UK, it’s been an incredibly dry spring in Cambridge. A consequence of this is that the ground is like concrete and the worms, the staple food of badgers, have retreated much deeper into the soil. With food scare, badgers sometimes
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In March 2025, Christine and I took a huge gamble: we went on a wildlife photography holiday to see a single, elusive species—one that is secretive and predominantly active between dusk and dawn. The animal in question was the Wolverine, and the location was the forests of Finland. To add further jeopardy, we chose to
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