I awoke one morning and the sun was dazzling through the upstairs window. Despite the imminent winter storm making its way across the country, it could have been seen as a full Spring day. The strengthening wind threatened a trip out with my camera, as I knew that there would…

After a three-hour drive from Lincolnshire to Wiltshire, I made myself comfortable in a small wooden hide; my space for the next eight hours. I usually find myself walking around an area to take images of wildlife, but this experience was something I was keen to witness for myself. The…

I arrived at RSPB Snettisham just as the sun rose above the horizon. The air was pleasantly cool, and the calls of arriving pink-footed geese and a late chiffchaff filled the air as I made the long walk to the coast of The Wash. I was still making my way…

The mist rolled in over the top of pine trees and descended down the cliff face, hanging just above the surface of the water. Not ideal weather conditions for cetacean spotting most would think. Because I do not live close to the coast, I become excited at the prospect of…

White-tailed sea eagles rule the skies around the Scottish Isles. Both these and golden eagles have suffered declines and near extinction in the last few hundred years, but are slowly being reintroduced to the rest of the British Isles in the hope that the population of both eagle species would…

These stories are more detailed versions of what I talk about in my Youtube video titled ‘My Wildlife Encounters on the Isle of Mull’. I often find that the way I talk about experiences with wildlife in a verbal manner differs from how I end up writing about them. So…

I think a lot of people would agree that the puffin is one of the most admired seabird species within the UK, if not the world. When I arrived on the island of Lunga a few summers ago, which is part of the Treshnish isles on the West coast of…

It was one of those evenings where the sky was a light blue, dotted with pink clouds that were reflecting the last of the sun’s rays. The air was still and not a breath of wind altered the branches of old wired trees. A thin white figure was sitting atop…

I have always had a love of the sea and the animals that inhabit it. So many emotions can be related to the movements of the sea and I find that being in or near water, I become instantly calm and I think about all of the wonders that lay…