Une petite blague pour mes amis Belge et Français. Ici, en Angleterre le temps est dégueulasse ! Je viens de recevoir ce dessin et il m`a bien fait rire.
Frederic
Wildlife Photography
by fred 2 Comments
What an evening I had yesterday! I could not have failed. I was near the fox den that I have been monitoring for weeks. Last evening it was MAGICAL! everything came together. I had four cubs that came out of the den in an incredible evening light….I was full of joy… Wahooo! It was GREAT. Coming back to the car, I came across some badger that were coming out of their set too…. As I was saying, I could not failed….I will have to go back.
Frederic
On my way to the car..this came up….
PS:
These kinds of pictures are NOT done in five minutes. What a lot of people do not realized is that to get pictures like this you have to go and recce, recce, recce and more recce. The photograph itself is the reward at the end. And it does not always happen. I feel that fieldcraf is getting lost… especially since the digital age… I thought that I should mention this as a lot of people seem to think that you can take picture of most wildlife in five minutes….
During the last two months, I have been following the adventure of 7 lapwing nest. Out of the 7 nesting lapwing only one did reach the end of incubation. Only three chicks survived after the first day and only two after a week. It is incredible how many lapwing nests get predated. Almost all of them except one! Life is not easy for the lapwing. Most of the nests were predated by crow,magpie,etc ….
Here is a picture of a very, very lucky bird.
Frederic
by fred 2 Comments
Sometimes you have really successful days…Yesterday was one of those. It was a fox day!
For the first time in a year, I went to my hare paradise. I saw very few hares. I think that all the rain we had last year’s killed a lot of them. I did not see any of my old friends…I am really sad about this. They were no hares but they was a fox and what a fox. I stayed with that vixen for more than half an hours. At the moment the meadow is a dandelion sea . It was incredible. I took the pictures with the 500mm and the 2 time converter. (I like that new 2 time converter).
In the evening, I went to another fox den to see if they were any cubs.
Frederic
While waiting to see if they was any fox cub. I did photograph other species….A gang of rabbit
In that meadow, sheep were everywhere…
And suddenly at long last four fox cub came out of a den…I “just” need to photograph them now. it will not be easy
It was an incredible fox day.