Chinese water deer

Buzzards day

August 21, 2017 by fred Leave a Comment

Last Wednesday was an amazing day, One of those magic day.

The weather was lovely and I knew that all the farmers of the area would be harvesting wheat. During the afternoon, I went for an hour to see what I could photograph.

It was incredible

Frederic

The harvest was fully on

The baling machine was baling straw

They were buzzard everywhere, I counted 12 birds.

It was amazing, and I could get close to them too

Here the buzzard is calling

It was nice to be able to capture all sorts of behaviours

Eating a prey

And flying from one bale to another…Beautiful

It was a buzzard day!

Even a Chinese water deer came out…

Yet again a my hare paradise

January 6, 2017 by fred Leave a Comment

Another cracking morning…Many different species this morning.

Frederic

Of course Hares were there

And Chinese water

Now for the morning surprises…

Grey partridge were feeding in the frozen meadow

Also magpie

And a pied wagtail was looking for food on one frozen puddle

Hare paradise….

January 3, 2017 by fred Leave a Comment

This morning, I was at “my” hare paradise and yet again I could not have gone wrong.

The light was to die for and plenty of subject to photograph…

Frederic

Brown hare watching the sunrise….

The male waiting patiently near the female…

Running..

Chinese water deer were also present but “only” twelve of them….

Look at the canine of this chap!!

Magical morning….

December 31, 2016 by fred 2 Comments

Sometime everything work perfectly well.

Yesterday morning was one of those morning where you could not go wrong. the weather was incredible, superb light, the subject were there and I was able to talked rubbish to a friend of mine during three hours…what else would you want ?????? 🙂 🙂

Frederic

I had never seen so many Chinese water deer.

I counted 22 individual!!

Very cold….

The light was to die for…

Of course we had several brown hair…

Beautiful in that frost…

Afternoon recce

October 20, 2015 by fred Leave a Comment

Just been to one of my feeding station. On the way back, I came across three different species of deer. I managed to photograph two. Lovely little deer.

Frederic

First one is the Chinese water deer

This one is the Roe deer. Roe deer is the only native British deer!

Hares…

March 23, 2015 by fred Leave a Comment

On Sunday afternoon, I was back at my “hare paradise”. I came across one eye Joe but could not take any shots of the little tyke. The good news is that all the sheep have been removed.
Now, the grass, flowers will start to grow…I can wait for the weather to get a bit warmer to kick start spring properly…
Frederic

Cant` beat a good strech.

I have sen this hare before, easely recognisable. he has got a double chin!

I also came accross a Chinese water deer

Brown hare

March 8, 2015 by fred Leave a Comment

Before work, Yesterday evening I went to my “Hare paradise”. It was going to be a beautiful sunset. For quite a while now, I have been after a shot . I wanted to photograph a hare running in Front of the sun at eye level. Easy thing to say but not easy thing to do. Well, yesterday I was lucky…But I will have to go back…I am sure that it is possible to do Better! 🙂 it always is…

Frederic

I am a sucker for these kind of pictures

Hare staring at the sun….

It`s always nice to come across Chinese water deer.

Look at the canine of that chap!

Brown hare in Hoar frost

February 23, 2015 by fred Leave a Comment

Hoar frost is not something I have the chance to photograph often. Well last Sunday I took loads of pictures of hares, Chinese water deer in hoar frost. It was spectacular. Of course I was at my “Hare Paradise” and I had a cracking time with my little friends….

Frederic

When the sun rises, it is always a battle to find a subject to place in the frame. You need to be very quick as “that” moment does not last very long…maybe 5 minutes at best, after the sun is too high and it`s too late,. This time I was lucky! you need a bit of luck from time to time.. 🙂

The light was gorgeous

I was able to come very close to this one. Taken about 3 metres away with 70-200mm. The sheep in the background were a bonus! 🙂

After a while I came across this chap. A very tame Chinese water deer.

At first he looked at me and then started to graze

He came quite close to me….Beautiful…

I was leaving when I came across this magpie perched on a post.

Snow, glorious snow

February 11, 2015 by fred Leave a Comment

As I was saying in a previous post , I had an incredible day at my “Hare paradise”. We do not have snow often in this part of the world, so when there is snow, you have to know where to go. It is always a short window, so you have to capitalised on that short opportunities .

I just could not go wrong that day. I photograph everything I wanted to photograph and as a bonus I had some incredible behaviours…

Frederic

The eye of the male (Left) was taking out by the female (Right) while I was there. the male wanted to mate and the female was not too keen! (They never are!)