Wildlife photography & film-making: Filming a Little Bittern hunting using the car as a mobile hide.
Dear Friends, A few hours of wild bird photography and filming.. spent trying to track down to film and photograph a Little Bittern on the hunt for his favourite prey.. frogs..! Plus a bonus first viewing for me of a Cuckoo species I've never seen before..! Hope you enjoy ! g
Dear Friends,
I'm back in Greece again and back at Lake Kerkini for another camera trapping series.
Back in January a friend had set up his trailcam in a woodland on the northern end of the lake where he captured Golden Jackals, Badgers and a Wolf... so I'm in the same location here trying for the same.!
Hope you enjoy..!
Timecodes:
00:00 Intro
01:57 Walk-In B-Roll
03:21 Walk-n-Talk
05:29 Camera Trap - 1st set-up
06:06 1st set-up talk through
08:41 1st Camera check
13:02 2nd Set-Up
15:14 Conclusions & results of 2nd Set-Up
19:50 Image + Clips from Trail-cameras
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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,
A couple of years ago whilst filming the Hidden Wonders of Europe series, Greece episode, for Nat Geo Wild (a series produced by Off The Fence Productions) I was asked by the production company if I could shoot a story about these little Alpine Newts which inhabited the high altitude ponds in the mountains and forests of Northwestern Greece.
I jumped at the opportunity but not being an underwater specialist I had to improvise how I would actually achieve this. Watch the intro to hear how I went about it and then the short showreel I put together of some of the footage.
This is not the sequence the company put together for the episode that was aired but rather my own take on the story I filmed for them.
Hope you enjoy and please do drop any comments or questions below.. I would love to hear from you.
all the best
g
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Day 3 of my summertime photographic tour at Lake Kerkini... early morning photography from a hide this time by the Kerkiniti River.. mosquitoes still abundant ! Black Storks by a weir and a late afternoon drive along the embankment of the Strimonas River.
Hope you enjoy !!
Best wishes and see you next time..!
g
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After my brief sojourn in the Pindos Mountains, I headed Northeast to the capital of Northern Greece, Thessaloniki.. to the West of which lies a massive delta known as GALA.. Gallikos, Axios, Loudias & Aliakmonas Rivers Delta...
It is such a huge place that it would take many visits to fully explore and I've only scratched the surface of it here.. but it did deliver.. in the shape of a beautiful Greater Spotted Eagle.. as well as some other more common but nevertheless lovely birds.
Hope you enjoy and see you next time..!
g
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Dear Friends,
Review of my trail cameras footage after only 3 days & 3 nights out in the field and some interesting activity..!! Golden Jackals, Foxes, Badgers and even a Wild Boar and a little Field Mouse.
Time to set up the DSLR Camera Trap to see what we might be lucky enough to capture and with a severe cold front coming in, snowfall and temps down to -16C over the next few days who knows what the camera trap may photograph..!
Hope you enjoy this one.. hit the bell icon for notifications so you don't miss the results of the dslr camera trap... in the next video...
all the best
g
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Dear Friends,
It was with some dismay that when going down to my DSLR camera trap location to check up on it as I do every few days, that I discovered the area had been bulldozed.
Thankfully my kit was ok but it was a near miss and apart from that the location was destroyed, the animals deprived of a crossing point and for me the hunt is on again to find a new location.In this episode.. apart from a small rant, I set about exploring a few areas for potential sites, setting out trail cameras in the first instance to check them out for a few days before committing the dslr.
Hope you enjoy.
best wishes
George
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A couple of weeks ago when driving up to Lake Kerkini in the north of Greece, I set up my GoPro on the dashboard and shot a hyper/time-lapse of part of the road trip... after I posted it on my Facebook page a friend asked me if I could make a video tutorial of how to make a time-lapse video.. so this is it... standing on a hill just along the coast from Athens looking out to the sun setting over the Saronic Gulf to Aegina Island and the Peloponnese in the far distance... a quick "how-to" landscape photography / videography session for a sunset time-lapse.
hope you like and find this useful...
best wishes
g
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A few weeks ago my sister called me excitedly to tell me about a fox den she had come across whilst out walking the dog.
A couple of evenings later I made my way to the location, set up my blind and waited. The sun set behind the mountain and the light started fading but so far no movement. I hung on a little longer and then I saw a couple of little ears twitching behind the long grasses. I waited more, the light kept dropping but eventually I was rewarded.
It only lasted about 30 mins and I fully intended to return soon to get more footage and photos, but as is sometimes the way, life intervened and conspired against me returning.
This brief peek into their lives was all I managed to record of them in the end. Hope you enjoy, brief though it is.
g
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