We had a family of Great Spotted Woodpeckers feeding in our garden yesterday and these are a few shots that I managed to get even though it was raining quite steadily at the time, hence the title wet Woodpeckers. View the full post
Tschuna, one of the Amur (Siberian) Tigers at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park and mother of the three year old cubs that are now nearly as big as her. View the full post
A shot of the Gawthorpe May Queen from a couple of months ago that I’ve only just got around to doing something with. It’s the same shot processed both as colour and black and white. View the full post
The first sightings, yesterday, of Large Skippers in 2016. The warm(ish) weather seems to have brought them out in large numbers, mainly on Brambles. There were a few Speckled Woods about and the odd Meadow Brown so hopefully if we get some more warm dry weather there’ll be a lot more to photograph. View the full post
Prowling polar Bears. Having just been fed three of the four Polar Bears at the YWP were prowling round their enclosure individually without much contact with one another. View the full post
More shots taken at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park on Thursday. These are of a young Starling on one of the enclosure fences at the park. The bird allowed me to get get quite close to him/her to take these photographs. View the full post
These shots of Black-headed Gulls were taken yesterday at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park. The gulls were in one of the Polar Bear enclosures and were, along with some Jackdaws scavenging on the meat that had been left for the Bears. They didn’t hang around when any of the bears got anywhere near them. View the full post
I’d another visit to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park at Doncaster today and these are three images of two of the Amur Leopards there. These are, I think, the adult Leopards. View the full post
This busy Crested Porcupine was scurrying around it’s enclosure and behind various obstructions that I only managed to get a few shots. Here are two of them. … View the full post
Three Rothschild’s Giraffes with their tongues out, including a newly born calf only a few days old, plus one shot, the last one, without the tongue showing. View the full post