I decided that as the cases of Covid are pretty low where we are in Scotland that I wanted to go and photograph from a hide.....

Over the last few years we had started to see a few Red Squirrels in our local area, but had never had the opportunity to photograph them...

When we were finally allowed to go further afield we decided to take a trip to Perthshire, Firstly we drove through Glen Quaich....

As we became less busy with the visors in June, I decided that I would spend some time photographing the birds in our garden.....

Following the start of the Covid Pandemic in Late February early March, after hearing about the lack of PPE in care homes in Scotland.....

On one of my last trips out before lockdown I headed up to the Highlands to photograph the mountain Hares.....

We travelled to a pond in Arbroath often during the month of January as we found a pair of Northern Pintail ducks......

Waxwing, named because of a small amount of red on their wings which looks like melted wax....

These photos were taken at Penny Hedge hide. It was not my first visit, but I had been so impressed on my first few trips....

I decided to go up to Troup Head, an RSPB reserve in Aberdeenshire which has the largest Gannet colony in the UK

It was a huge surprise to find out that there was a Cattle Egret that had taken up residence on a farm in Stirling.....

Another visit down to Dumfries to photograph Badgers at one of the 'Scottish photography’ hides. ....

''I consider the most important thing is the well-being of the animals and birds that I'm photographing.
This means that I strive to put animals and their habitats before my own ambition as a nature photographer.''

Today, environmental concerns are the most pressing issues faced by humanity. Mankind's effect on the planet has been so profoundly damaging that scientists have declared the start of the 21st century, the 'Anthropocene'

To help the Re-forestation of Scotland,
I'm planting my own grove of trees. via the wonderful charity 
Trees For Life.

Scotland used to be a forest, it was alive, there was an abundance of wildlife living here, 1.5 million hectares of indigenous trees as far as you could see