My Quest

Who am I?

It is easier to tell you, who I am not. I am not an ornithologist nor indeed, any other kind of ologist (I did manage to get a grade C in O'level Biology but other than that, I have had no formal training in this field). I claim no credentials other than my own experiences and limitless enthusiasm.
I have always been fascinated by birds (and other areas of natural history) and together with my love of photography I am now in a position to bring these two fields together.
I am reminded how easy it is to get things wrong by recalling the time, when reading my first bird book, I was fascinated to learn that swifts 'caught insects on the wing'. In my mind, I pictured sticky strips along the birds' wings with which they snared unfortunate insects! So if you spot any errors on my pages, please let me know - it's how I learn.
Approaching my 50th birthday (January 2009), I decided on the quest of photographing Britain's birds and my hope is, that along the way I can help other 'non-experts' in their own efforts in identifying some of our species. Whilst many photographs are, to say the least, poor from a pure photography standpoint, I have included them where they portray the species and offer some help in a recognition process. It is to be hoped that as time goes on, I will be able to replace these 'poor' shots with better quality ones.

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