Dear Friends,
Following a challenging 18 months, I am now back in Greece and trying to establish a base of operations here at Lake Kerkini.. ie. I'm trying to find a place to rent which is proving to be easier said than done.
Until I do, making any new videos will be difficult as I have the puppy in tow and have nowhere to leave him to go off and shoot.. but it won't be long and I thank you in the meantime for your patience.
For the moment, I managed to put together this little short of the ground squirrels I filmed for the Nat Geo doc which aired earlier this year... just a bit of fun but I hope you enjoy.!
thanks again
George
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Dear Friends,
Review of my trail cameras footage after only 3 days & 3 nights out in the field and some interesting activity..!! Golden Jackals, Foxes, Badgers and even a Wild Boar and a little Field Mouse.
Time to set up the DSLR Camera Trap to see what we might be lucky enough to capture and with a severe cold front coming in, snowfall and temps down to -16C over the next few days who knows what the camera trap may photograph..!
Hope you enjoy this one.. hit the bell icon for notifications so you don't miss the results of the dslr camera trap... in the next video...
all the best
g
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Dear Friends,
First thing I did upon returning from my filming trip was to set up my dslr camera trap once again down by the little canal.
First few days proved fruitful with images recorded of all my target species including one unexpected bonus of a little Beech Marten. I wasn't entirely satisfied with the images though so I reset the camera to concentrate only on the crossing branch. I let a few more nights pass before going to check and though the trailcam picked up some amazing behaviour both from the wildcat and the marten for some reason the trigger didn't fire and I got zero shots.
I took it apart, went home, recharged batteries again and then reset the camera trap once more in the field.
This time I was lucky.. not many shots but a few that I'm super happy with..!
Broke the camera trap down again due to bad weather and now waiting a few days before I can reset again with all lessons I've learned so far re positioning and lighting.
Hope you enjoy and hope you find this informative.
all the best
g
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I had intended to re-shoot my failed "Dawn with the Flamingos" effort this morning but alas my car had other ideas.. typical for Landrover owners..!
So I left the car with a mechanic friend and headed back the 8Km to the hotel on foot via the lake embankment in the hope of spotting a few birdies along the way...
Hope you enjoy..
Best wishes and see you next time..!
g
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Dear Friends,
A few hours of wild bird photography and filming.. spent trying to track down to film and photograph a Little Bittern on the hunt for his favourite prey.. frogs..!
Plus a bonus first viewing for me of a Cuckoo species I've never seen before..!
Hope you enjoy !
g
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Dear Friends,
Welcome to part 2 of my Black Storks project.
In this video, a further two visits up the mountain forest to carry on filming sequences for my Black Stork mini wildlife documentary.
Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy.
Best wishes to you all
George
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Locked in.. self-isolation.. social distancing.. after 3 days couped up at home and the sun shining outside I thought it high time I got myself doing something physical... so I went for a walk across fields and through woodlands near my house in the Oxfordshire countryside.
Did me a world of good and I hope it will bring 15 mins of escape for you too.
Best wishes and see you next time..!
g
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Dear Friends,
A little bit of wild bird photography and filming on a short walk this morning in the beautiful little woodland I had visited several weeks ago at the start of spring. Looking to see if the Grey-headed woodpecker I had spotted back then had now nested and produced chicks.. and I was treated to a nest hole cram packed full of babies.
At first I thought there was only one chick, but then I spotted a second.. and when I got the footage up onto the big screen noticed there was definitely a tiny 3rd chick and possibly even a fourth whose beaks I could only just discern.
The woods floor though have totally overgrown into a jungle of ferns and nettles populated by a million mosquitoes which made going tough through the undergrowth.. so I had to beat a retreat back to the path.
Before giving up for the day a final little surprise when I noticed a tiny face peeking out at me from a little hole high up in a tree.. watch/skip to the end to see what I found..!
Hope you enjoy.. see you next time..!
g
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Another evening of hunting for a Barn Owl to photograph and film..
Hope you are all doing well.
Best wishes and see you next time..!
g
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