It’s been three months since I last photographed the kingfishers near Stamford. Since then, they have raised a second brood that has already fledged. I’d hoped to see the juveniles, but alas they did not show. It’s possible that the parents were in the process of driving the juveniles away from the territory, but who […]
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Given the wet spring and early summer, the field where I usually watch the Cambridge fox family has become heavily overgrown with long grass, making it difficult to see or photograph the fox cubs. As a result, I decided to set up my portable photography hide to capture low-angle images of the cubs along the
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Warning: The following post contains an account and pictures that some people may find upsetting. On the 19th May we were in Ranthambhore’s zone 2 looking for a tigress called Arrowhead, who had three eleven-month-old cubs. Near the end of our afternoon drive we located them in a tree-lined, shallow gorge that contained plenty
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I’ve always wanted to see young fox cubs at their den. Two days ago, I finally located the den of our local vixen, Ruby, who’s been nursing her cubs for about 5 weeks. The den is extremely well-located, surrounded by deep swaths of nettles, tangled vegetation and fallen trees, so it’s challenging to approach without
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