Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Investigating Spain's Ecology

Here is some footage I filmed for UCLTV last month on the undergraduate field trip to Zahara de los Atunes in southern Spain. Bird-wise, only a Griffon Vulture features!

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Eurasian Cranes at Hornborgasjön in Sweden

Finally, here are my photographs from Lake Hornborga of one of Europe's most impressive species (I may have a crane bias though!). I'm planning a trip to New Mexico in the winter (I know it currently still feels like winter here) to photograph the Sandhill Cranes and Snow Geese at Bosque del Apache. The dream, one day, would be to go to Hokkaido in winter to photograph the Japanese Cranes in the snow!
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Wild Swans of Sweden

Here are some of my photographs of the wild Whooper Swans at two of their major Scandinavian spring resting sites in Sweden. In late March and early April this year I visited Hornborgasjön near Falköping, and Svansjön Tysslingen near Örebro. Many of these were taken from one-person photographic hides but I found that flight shots were more easily obtained from a distance outside of the hides, allowing more of the landscape to show.

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