You wouldn’t believe the amount of people that live in the Uk that still don’t even know that we have Lizards in this country. There was a time that I didn’t know either, and upon finding my fist as a child, that moment will forever stay with me.

An under-recorded bird, often overlooked for being their common cousins (Goldcrest) but these beautiful birds show more colour where it matters and sport an extra white eye-stripe, making that colourful crest stand out even more. This photo was taken as part of a small study on mimicking birds as this is the second individual that I’ve recorded singing both Firecrest and Goldcrest song.

My Rose bush took a hit this year as a fair amount of Sawfly laid their eggs in the stems. Upon hatching, these larvae took over and devoured quite a bit, but the Rose survived for another year.

Not very often you get this close to a Sparrowhawk but after a failed attempt at catching a Sparrow on the bird feeders, it landed just metres from the hide in beautiful sunlight.

They come in different colour phases, ranging from light slate grey to dark brown. This is the common dark phase and it’s a female showing her huge ovipositor used to lay her eggs. Dark Bush-Crickets are one of the only species of Cricket in the Uk that continues to chirp throughout the night, and in the day time, seeks out the shade. They are adapted to the colder temperatures unlike the Roesel’s Bush-Cricket that needs day time warmth in order to produce their sound. This for me makes the Dark Bush-Cricket an iconic British species, and the warm summer nights aren’t the same without them.

Why did the Water Rail walk across the ice? Literally.. to get to the other side lol, where the water had melted in the sun, allowing it to feed in the shallows. 

Midday snack in my friends Garden. ‘Life that leaf he said’ and there it was, almost as small as the worm in which it was devouring. Fantastic species that’s actually a legless Lizard rather than a worm or a snake. If you look closely, they have eyelids and teeth just like a Lizard.

An amazing experience getting close to our native Fish Hawks. Ospreys are a world wide loved species and it was an absolute pleasure to have photographed three Juveniles on my home patch. 

Sunrise on an early cold autumn morning at Llandegfedd Reservoir

Just like the tide, when something is so strong, you can’t fight it, you just have to work with it and the same applied here with the backlighting from the white waves. Turned out to be one of my favourite images.

My first sighting of Adders, basking on a beautiful sunny spring morning. I didn’t really have the right lens for the job, so took my chances with my macro lens and so long as no shadow was casted on them, they were completely fine with me, just 10 inches away from their face!

Goldcliff Lagoons September 2025, not a very showy Wryneck at all, spent more time in cover than out feeding but every now and again between locations it would perch up. Would have liked to have got a little closer but that was impossible given the short time it stayed there

An experience I’ll never forget and one that’s got me totally hooked on the magical Forest of Dean.

Emerging from dense cover, these two wild boar siblings were play fighting in the warm spring sun.

The intended image was meant to be a frosty mushroom, but by the time I relocated the shroom, it had all melted in the morning sun.

Snow immediately sets the mood of this photo for me and the fact that the Male Woodpecker is slightly puffed up to keep insulated. This is my favourite woodpecker image by far.

From the Snow-covered hilltops of Scotland and beyond to the hardtop tarmac of South Wales Blaenavon

I started photography a little backwards, in that I owned a long lens, long before I owned any sort of landscape lens and that was largely due to a lack of interest in landscapes but also because I was shooting on crop sensor cameras and could never get the full perspective I was looking for so now i’m using a full frame camera, I invested in a few landscape lenses and I’m really enjoying travelling lighter for a change

Everything was feeding on these at the time as the water levels drop below the invasive zebra muscle line but I never thought i’d see a Phalarope taking interest in them like this one did.

I do like these, nice combo of colours and patterns but they always seem to pose like this with that hunched back, which makes for a more pleasing caterpillar on a stick photo lol

Not just my favourite pictures of this bird (I had many) but it meant more to me as it was my first self found Grey Phalarope.