Scotland

Mountain Hare

Male Red Grouse shot from the mini bus window

 Male Red Grouse again shot from the mini bus

 Black Grouse leck 

These images were shot after spending a night in a hide set up right next to the lek site. They started to lek at 5:30 am and finished around 8:30. I was trying to capture the action however at f. 2.8 it was not easy to capture the action and focus correctly.

 Two males and a hen

 Strutting about 

 Badger 

I went to Photograph Pine Martins one night however they didn't come to the hide on this particular night. I did have some Badgers to entertain me though. This one was shot full frame 24mm 

 Mountain Hare

while people tried to get as close as possible to them by stalking I decided to position myself down the hill and wait for the Hares to run down towards me. I wanted to show the spectacular landscape that they live in and include the hair. 

 Ptarmigan 

These birds are so well camouflaged that I walked right past this one and had to retrace my steps to capture it. 

 Another one, this time a female shot just as the sun was going down.

 These two shots were photographed in a blizzard, very tricky conditions for photography. The wind kept blowing snow into the front of the lens and composing/focusing was very tricky due to ice building up in the view finder.

The view from where we were staying