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New - My Latest Worldwide Photos - Brown Bears in Finland Two days bear watching produced some excellent sightings
	Brown Bears in Finland
Sweden's Black River Valley Four days were spent in the fantastic Black River Valley area of Sweden looking for and finding some great birds.	more photos from Sweden
	Siberian Jay
	Nutcracker
	Black Woodpecker Europe's largest Woodpecker
	Crested Tit (although I have also seen "Cresties" these Scotland, the Crested Tit is much more numerous in Scandinavia)
	Nuthatch (although also found in Britain The Scandinavian race has a white belly)
	Pygmy Owl Europe's smallest Owl at just 6 inches tall

Long Term Wildlife Photography Project - The Owl's of Europe

One of my many long term projects is to get acceptable pictures of all of Europe's Owls

	Barn Owl Photographed in Leicestershire, England Barn Owl
	Little Owl Photographed in England Little Owl
	Long-eared Owl Photographed in Staffordshire, England
	Northern Hawk Owl Photographed in Black River Valley, Sweden
	Pygmy Owl Photographed in Black River Valley, Sweden Pygmy Owl
	Short-eared Owl Photographed in England Short-Eared Owl
	Tawny Owl Photographed in England Tawny Owl

The British species of Owl's (plus the occasional rarity such as Snowy Owl make the chance of getting at least six of the European Owls reasonably easy with a bit of knowledge and patience.

Photographing them is a different matter - Many of my British Owl pictures could do with improvement
Photographing the non British species is also very tricky, and in many case I will have to be happy with whatever pictures I can get.

Obviously a long way to go to get all the European owl's pictured on this site. But you have to start somewhere.
Among the Owls of Europe are two of the wildlife species that I most want to see (Snowy Owl & Great Grey Owl).
Others to see and photograph include Tengmalms, Ural, and Eagle Owl.
I am not sure if Brown Fish Owl and African Marsh Owl count as European Owls or not.

Long Term Wildlife Photography Project - The Woodpecker's of Europe

Another of my many long term projects is to get acceptable pictures of al of Europe's Woodpeckers
Although there is only nine species to photograph, this is still not an easy project. With Lesser Spotted being very hard to photograph in Britain, it looks like I need a few successful European visits to get anywhere near this goal.

	Black Woodpecker Photographed in Sweden
	Greater Spotted Woodpecker Photographed in Sweden also seen and photographed in England and Scotland (Including my garden)
	Grey Headed Woodpecker Photographed in Sweden
	Green Woodpecker Photographed in my garden Leicestershire, England

Four completed - Five to go + Wryneck
These are: Lesser Spotted, Three Toed, White Backed, Syrian, Middle Spotted, and Wryneck
Hopefully I will also improve my pictures of some of the above in the meantime as well.

A visit to Eastern Europe is a must to try and catch up with a few of these.

Incidentally - Another of My Long Term Wildlife Photography Projects is to get Photographs of all 58 British Butterflies

By the time I have succeeded in getting Owl's Peckers, and Butterflies, no doubt I will be in the middle of yet another project....

Wildlife from around the world

for obvious reasons most of the pictures on this site are of British Wildlife but I have also added some pictures from other areas

I was lucky enough to see both Black and White Rhino in 1992

Larger pictures

Fish Eaagle in Malawi - April 1992

In 1992 - Way back before digital cameras in March & April 1992, I went on an Overland across six African countries.
Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Zambia
these pictures were taken on slide film, later transferred to Kodak picture CD and eventually added to my web site.

African safari pictures from 1992

In 1999 - 2000 we went to Malaysia and Indonesia with the majority of time being spent in Borneo

Borneo - Orang-utan's

Borneo - Green Turtle's

At the end of 2000 a quick visit to India was mostly spent visiting temples including the Targ Mahal but we did manage one wildlife day.

India - Keoladoe

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