WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER

Mike is a full time wildlife photographer specialising in birds and mammals. Although he travels abroad a great deal, his main love is British wildlife. He gains far more satisfaction photographing humble wrens and chaffinches than exotic parrots in distant rain forests.

Trips have included the Shetlands, The Gambia, Botswana, Tanzania, Namibia, Israel, Florida, Poland, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Iceland, Turkey, Greece and Cyprus.

"I think this is because I grew up with British wildlife and simply get more excited about it. Nevertheless I enjoy the travel and have spent long periods in Canada, Australia, Spain and India.

In Canada I spent three months living in a tent in the Yukon on my lonesome. A wonderful and lonely experience.

India could not have been more different. Lonely you can never be in the Keoladeo Ghana Nation Park near Bharatpur, but it is the number of visitors that has made the birds so tame and photographable.

Australia is not an easy place for wildlife photography , but O'Reillys in the Lamington National Park was outstanding for parrots and bowerbirds, while the Esplanade at Cairns offered a wonderful high tide wader roost that was easy to photograph.

Spain was close enough to home that I recognised the birds I saw and provided great opportunities to photograph some of Britain's rarer species."

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