The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust

I am in Jersey for two weeks and have become a member of The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust. It is a trust that helps endangered species worldwide and is widely acknowledged for its conservation efforts. The centre in Jersey holds some fantastic species from across the globe, these photographs show a few examples.
Unfortunately the light was poor so they may seem a tad washed out.

macaques

Orangutan grabbing a blackberry

Tree frog

Macaque grooming

Ring Tailed Lima

   

 

Swanpool Lake

The weather in Cornwall has been terrible of late, there was a brief halt in the rainfall so i went to nearby Swanpool Lake. Here are a few images from the shoot...

Coot feeding her chick

Coot and Chick

Seals of Cornwall

Here are a few seals I have seen off the Cornish coast lately... many times I have got in the water with them but the visibility has been too poor to capture good photos from under the surface. These are images i have captured from above the surface, im waiting for the visibility to clear up before I get back in with my underwater camera system.

Seal yawn

A Large male

Seals are comfortable with people in the water

Birds of Cornwall in early June.

The sun is here at last! and my university term is over! which has given me even more time to stroll around sunny cornwall with my camera. Here are a few photographs i have taken recently, enjoy!

Big brother Signet

Mouthy little tit

Stonechat often on the tip of a branch

Wheatear

Kestral hovering over Godrevy head

A Signet copying his mother

Whitethroat has a very distinctive, shrill call

R.S.P.B Cornish Chough conservation project

The Cornish Chough is one of the rarest birds in England, having been extinct for 50 years it mysteriously re-appeared in 2001, there are currently 18 individuals in the country so photographing them is extremely difficult and sometimes very tedious, recently i spent a week on the Lizard peninsula monitoring the protected nest sites, this gave me an insiders view into the lives of these mysterious birds.

Female call in the early morning sun

                           

                                     Male removing faecal sac to keep nest hidden

                              

Female swooping into cave   

Pair almost always forage together

The pair show much affection to each other

Female pondering by cave entrance

Male swooping and calling

Male profile