Known best for it’s archaeology and connections with the two World Wars, the Orkney Islands are also a fantastic place for wildlife. Never before had I seen so many curlew, lapwing, oystercatchers, fulmar, starlings… just to name a few. I visited in July 2025 and returned in May 2026.
read more Exploring The Orkney Islands: A Wildlife Lover’s Paradise
A look back at 2024. It was a challenging year for a number of reasons, but I had some wonderful wildlife encounter and trips, was involved in a film and shared the wildlife with lovely and enthusiastic clients.
It was lovely to return to the West Coast of Scotland for a week in November 2024. Morvern has become one of my favourite places and it’s always a joy to go back especially when the weather was cold and the wildlife plentiful.
My winter wildlife photography workshop season has begun where I introduce clients to wildlife of the Scottish Highlands including red squirrels, crested tits, mountain hares and red deer. It’s gone well so far and the wildlife has been fantastic.
I’m now taking bookings for my crested tit sites in the Scottish Highlands. I have two sites and in this blog talk about my new one set in scots pine and larch woodland with bags of photographic potential.
Over the summer months I enjoyed spending time with local pine martens and badgers, both species normally nocturnal. Wonderful creatures.
In this final instalment of my winter wildlife blogs I’ll be sharing memories of my time on the hill with mountain hares but first, the other species I’ve yet to mention – red deer and snow bunting.
read more Winter Wildlife P3 – Mountain hares, Red Deer and Snow Bunting
In this blog I’m going to cover the wildlife enjoyed by my winter wildlife clients and myself in a fantastic pinewood. Within this wood I have set up a couple of nut feeders and enjoy visits from many species: crested tits, long-tailed tits, coal tits, great tits, blue tits, chaffinches, robins, dunnock, treecreepers, goldcrest, wrens, bank voles, pygmy shrew and red squirrels. Over the winter months there is so much going on, it’s brilliant!
read more Winter Wildlife P2: Crested Tits & Woodland Wildlife
Over the past few months I’ve appeared on This morning and been interviewed by Nature TTL.
read more “From Amateur to Professional” – Nature TTL Interviewed me
Autumn in the Scottish Highlands has been a season of fantastic colours and challenging wildlife photography. However both myself and my clients have enjoyed some wonderful encounters with some of the incredible wildlife we have in the Highlands.
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