Copyright...

All photos are copyright Andrew Williams.

Please do not copy or use them without my permission. My contact details are available on this site.

 

My equipment

I use: Canon EOS 400D 10.1mp digital SLR camera 

Long lens:

Until June 2009: Sigma EX APO 50-500mm lens

From June 2009: Canon 400mm f/5.6 L USM lens

The Canon lens is much lighter in weight (you can hand-hold it successfully - unlike the Sigma). It is also faster focusing.

I had great problems with the Sigma lens, not least that the zoom mechanism kept jamming. The zoom-lock switch also jammed, eventually falling apart altogther!

With this lens I sometimes use a Kenko 1.4x Teleplus MC4 DGX teleconverter.

Macro lens:

Canon EFS 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM lens.

 

Many thanks to James Packer for his advice and experience.

Bird photos

Please select a page from those listed below...

Photo archive - Non-passerines 1 (divers, grebes, herons, waterfowl, raptors, rails)

Photo archive - Non-passerines 2 (waders, gulls, pigeons, swifts)

Photo archive - Passerines

Scientific bird names explained

Other wildlife photos

Mammals

Roe Deer Capreolus capreolus; Ham Wall

Brown Rat Rattus norvegicus; image 1; image 2; image 3

Grey Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis; Ilfracombe, Devon

Red Fox Vulpes vulpes; Taunton

Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus; Taunton

Otter Lutra lutra; Shapwick NNR

Harbour Porpoise Phocaena phocaena; Ilfracombe, Devon

Grey Seal Halichoerus grypus; Ilfracombe, Devon

Pine Marten Martes martes; (roadkill) Mallorca

Insects

Butterflies -

Comma; Hestercombe

Common Blue; Braunton Burrows, Devon: male, female; Dunes du Steir, Finistère: male; female

Gatekeeper; Braunton Burrows

Painted Lady; Braunton Marshes

Clouded Yellow; Etang de St. Vio, Finistère: image 1

Eastern Festoon; Highbridge, Somerset:  image 1; image 2

Swallowtail; Forêt du Gâvre, France: image1, image 2, image 3

Silver-washed Fritillary; Heddon Valley, Devon: image 1, image 2; Forêt du Gâvre, France: image 1, image 2

Queen of Spain Fritillary; Forêt du Gâvre, France: image 1, image 2, image 3

Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary; Heddon Valley

Speckled Wood; Taunton: image 1; La Croisic, Loire-Atlantique: image 1

Moths -

Jersey Tiger; Santec, Finistère, France: image 1, image 2; Etang de St. Vio, Finistère, France: image 1

Hummingbird Hawkmoth; Mallorca

Cinnabar; Braunton Burrows

Six-spot Burnet; Heanton Court

Dragonflies & Damselflies -

Black-tailed Skimmer Orthetrum cancellatum male; image 1, image 2, overmature female

Broad-bodied Chaser Libellula depressa; female; Braunton Burrows

Red-veined Darter Sympetrum fonscolombii; Etang de Trunvel, Finistère: image 1, image 2

Banded Demoiselle Calopteryx splendens; female, male image 1, image 2, image 3

White-legged Damselfly Platycnemis pennipes; female image 1, image 2;  River Tone, Ruishton

Common Blue Damselfly Enallagma cyathigerum; Etang de St. Vio, Finistère: image 1

Others -

Hoverflies - Vollucella pellucens; Vollucella zonaria

Flies - image 1, image 2

Maybug / Cockchafer at Braunton Marsh: image 1; image 2

Other photos

Astronomy

Gibbous moon (24/7/07)

 

Nature reserves/sites

Greylake - pond, boardwalk

Netherclay Community Wood - view 1, view 2

Quantock Hills:

Crowcombe Park Gate - view south,

view of Hinckley Point

West Sedgemoor - Swell Wood, view point