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When it comes to UK mammals, few species are more challenging and yet at the same time rewarding than otters.  Not only is it a question of knowing where to go and look for them but the fieldcraft involved is right up there too: time of year (there’s more family…

Pretty much all my adult life I’ve lived with cats at home and as I write this one of them has even settled on my lap in his attempt to assist and interrupt my endeavours with his purring! As a result I have learned to recognise an array of their…

During the pandemic I missed going to many locations, but one place that I was desperate to get back to was Svalbard. I have been running trips to this beautiful Island Archipelago in the high Arctic for many years. These islands are the realm of the King of the Arctic,…

With a busy catchup year behind us and a full on year ahead we’re pleased to have added our  new programme for 2024 to the site with some familiar and popular trips along with some new locations we’ve been waiting to be able to run for a few years now….

With global travel starting to really open up once again our 2023 programme is now fully online and open for booking.  We’re continuing to offer an expanded range of UK trips, supporting individuals and sites that were a huge lifeline to us and our customers during the restrictions of the…

We have today added our 2022 Holidays programme in full on to the site and we thought it important to explain our approach to available places on these trips.  Where the trip is one still planned for this year but has not run yet, we have reserved places on next…

I photographed my first fox in 1989 and it was a Red Fox that was visiting an elderly couple’s garden who had been feeding the local foxes for years. They would put out the food at the same time every night and within half an hour a little vixen would…

Happy New Year albeit a very different one. Normally at this time of year we would be proudly announcing our programmes for the following year. The current COVID situation though is far from normal and continues to both challenge and frustrate when it comes to planning future trips whilst at…

One of my last trips out of the UK before Covid-19 restrictions came into force was back in February to Norway. I went to the beautiful Dovrefjell National Park looking for Musk Ox during the winter conditions that these mountain ranges are famous for. I have been to these beautiful…

I have been deeply fascinated by Raptors since I was a Kid and one of my lifetime ambitions as a photographer was to photograph a Golden Eagle. It was impossible in those early days unless you could get a licence to photograph them at the nest, which the average tog…