Wild bird photography at Lake Kerkini in Greece - Flamingos
Join me in Greece at Lake Kerkini for a behind the scenes look at wildlife & bird photography as I try to photograph Flamingos at sunrise from my hide on the shores of the lake... sorry this is a bit of a long one but I hope you find it worth staying till the end.
The flamingos are just one of many bird species that over winter on the Lake but are definitely one of the most beautiful and definitely vocal of all winter visitors here.. In the early morning they like to feed in the shallows of the western shoreline of the lake and as the sun rises behind them the opportunities for creating beautiful landscape/wildlife images with stunning silhouettes against the rising sun are hard to resist for any wildlife photographer. On this particular morning the weather didn't play ball and the sky was socked in by low lying clouds.. nevertheless opportunities for some lovely photos still came along in the diffuse milky light of a cloudy day at Lake Kerkini.
Dear Friends,
Apologies it's taken longer than expected to get the next video out.. difficulties finding a new location, animals not behaving as expected and an injury suffered by my pup to his leg has made for a very frustrating few weeks.!
Out scouting a new location to place my trailcams and dslr camera trap on a mountainside forest that I don't normally visit due to it's being within the hunting zone.
Hope you enjoy this one and with luck it won't be such a long wait before the next installment.
all the best
g
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05:33 Walk-In
06:41 Setting the 1st Trailcam
09:51 Setting the Camera Trap
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Dear Friends,
Apologies yet again for the length of time I've been away and unable to post any new videos.. hopefully that's all about to change now that I am back in Greece on a more permanent basis as I will be working on a new documentary film for Nat Geo Wild over the next 6/7 months and will with luck be able to bring you along with me.
Until I find somewhere to rent things have been a bit difficult in terms of being able to get out and shoot as I have nowhere to leave the pup safely and I can't leave him in the hotel room.
That being the case I thought I would try a new location for my camera traps and set off up the mountain with pup in tow to a beautiful mixed forest where autumn colours are still trying to cling on as winter is beginning to set in here.
In this video, I set up 3 trailcams and got some nice results.. a fox and a couple of Beech Martens... next episode I will be setting up the camera trap proper and trying to get some decent images of them.
Thanks for watching
George
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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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Dear Friends,
Join me as I track, stalk and chase wildcats around the fields and meadows surrounding lake Kerkini trying to get some decent shots of them hunting.
Hope you enjoy watching.
best wishes
George
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Dear Friends,
Welcome to part 3 of my latest Trailcam and DSLR Camera Trapping adventure.. hope you enjoy..!
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Dear Friends,
My apologies again for my long absence from Youtube.
This is very simply a showreel of my work that I created last winter for an Off The Fence production for National Geographic WILD.. part of the Greece episode for a new series entitled "Hidden Wonders of Europe".
Hope you enjoy and hopefully I'll be back with more regular content soon..!
best wishes
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Dear Friends,
I really love making these wildlife photography and film-making vlogs and it took me a couple of very early morning starts to be able to put this one together as conditions were a little challenging...
On the Eastern side of Lake Kerkini at this time of year the high water level creates beautiful meadows and paddyfields where multiple varieties of herons, pelicans and wading birds like to wander through looking for a meal.
Hope you enjoy.
best wishes
George
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Dear Friends,
Welcome to another video of DSLR camera trapping in the mountains above Athens. Once again I'm up the narrow ravine near my home setting up the camera at various locations trying to get a shot of a fox. After 2 months of set ups and continued disappointments I finally get a shot of a badger which was doubly satisfying as I never expected to find badgers near Athens and is lovely to see that we have a little diversity of wildlife here.
Hope you enjoy.. I've left chapter markers below so please feel free to jump to any point in the vid if you find it too long.
Thanks again and see you next time..
g
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18:59 - Third location results..!
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25:00 - Photos
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Dear Friends,
Here's a project that I've been thinking about doing for a quite a while now that I've been quite excited to get going on.. and now with lock-down it seemed the time was right to do just that..!
I hope to be putting it in to action soon so stay tuned for that in a future video.
In the mean time I hope you enjoy watching me put this together and hopefully it will give you a few ideas for your own camera trap set up.
Stay well and see you out there soon..!
g
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