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I have owned a professional DSLR camera for about 9 months now and I have been using it to advance my wildlife photography skills (although not exclusively wildlife).

I have decided to use my blog as a platform to share my wildlife photography, and occasionally any other images that I particularly love!

What I’d really love to get from these posts is to share my work and inspire other and to also get people sharing their wildlife photography with me too so that we can all learn and grow as photographers together!!

I’d love to know if you guys will enjoy this or not, so please leave me a comment below letting me know, or send me a message on Facebook, or even check out my actual photography Instagram to keep up to date with my photography!

So without further ado, here are my favourite wildlife photographs that I captured so far!!

  Hope you enjoyed these images and I’d love to see everyone else’s too!

Wildlife Photography: Episode 1 I have owned a professional DSLR camera for about 9 months now and I have been using it to advance my wildlife photography skills (although not exclusively wildlife).

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Dog Breeds 101: Pembroke Welsh Corgi

Dog Breeds 101: Pembroke Welsh Corgi

  KEY INFORMATION

Lifespan

Height

Weight

12-14 years

10-12 inches

27 to 30 pounds

TEMPERAMENT

The Pembroke Welsh Corgi is known for being a happy, loving and intelligent breed. However, they can have a stubborn and independent streak. Generally they are easy to train but they do like to think for themselves at times.

This breed loves food and it can be used as a great…

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On The Brink: Dama Gazelle

On The Brink: Dama Gazelle

  The Dama Gazelle (Nanger dama) is a critically endangered (CR) antelope living in Africa. They have been listed a CR since 2006 when they were upgraded from endangered due to having a population size below 250 mature individuals. There are currently 5 surviving subpopulations which are fragmented and are considered to contain less than 50 mature individuals.

While the Dama Gazelle used to roam…

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My Favourite Animal Films

My Favourite Animal Films

Now this post is going down a slightly different route, and I wanted to post this before I took a break from my blog but I never really plucked up the courage to try something different than the set routine posting schedule that I created for myself. Now that I have broke free from this routine (well a little anyway) it leaves me free to write what I enjoy and to post it when I feel like it.

Plea…

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Dog Breeds 101: Pyrenean Mountain Dog

Dog Breeds 101: Pyrenean Mountain Dog

Hi guys,

I know I’ve been missing for several months but the time has come to make my return, I have missed blogging and sharing my knowledge and connecting with people online, but I did completely lose my inspiration and motivation for the blog and I had got to a point where I wasn’t happy with the posts that were going up! A break was well needed so that I could get my head in the right place…

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My Favourite Wildlife Books

Blue Planet 2

Just in case you can’t watch the TV series, you can read the book!!

The Blackbird Diaries

The Inner Life of Animals

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

MAGAZINE ENTRY!

World of Animals

I’ve listed these books (and magazine) as I’m a book lover who is looking for some more wildlife book recommendations! If you know of any others please let me know!!

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My Experience With A Difficult Dog

Happy New Year to my readers! I hope you had a good holiday season and you are now looking forward to the New Year like myself. For this post I’m going to be writing about my experience with my difficult dog.

Just over three years ago we got a new puppy who we picked because he was the runt of the litter, getting picked on by the other puppies in his litter and had an infection running throughout…

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Considering today is the 23rd of December and almost Christmas, I’ve decided to skip this week’s Animal Travels and instead wish everybody a Merry Christmas!

I hope all my readers have the Christmas they deserve and have an amazing time with family, friends and pets!

To finish this post I’m just going to add some of my favourite pictures that I’ve taken this year!

Feel free to share any of your favourite pictures from this year as I’m interested to see them!

Merry Christmas everybody! Talk soon!

Merry Christmas from Animal Travels. Considering today is the 23rd of December and almost Christmas, I’ve decided to skip this week’s Animal Travels and instead wish everybody a Merry Christmas!

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Snow Day Fun

The little town that I call ‘home’ experienced some snow this past week. Living up a gigantic hill isn’t always helpful when it snows resulting in several stuck vehicles and a bus blocking the road.

However, the snow did allow me to get out and take some pictures with the dog, so for this post I just wanted to share the pictures that I managed to capture before the snow melted.

I hope you enjoy…

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All About Reindeer

(Rangifer tarandus) Vulnerable

  Also known as Caribou.

2890400 mature individuals remaining in the wild.

Decreasing population trend.

Competition with domesticated Reindeer and unregulated hunted are causing threats to wild Reindeer.

Have several adaptations that allow them to survive and thrive in a tundra environment:

Reindeer have unique bone structures inside their noses which enable their…

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Animal Travels: Peru

PERUVIAN WOOLLY MONKEY (Lagothrix cana) Endangered

MAJOR THREATS This species is heavily hunted and infants are much favoured as pets. The females with offspring tend to be targeted by hunters, so that they can sell the infants as pets. Hunting is the main threat prior to deforestation, and colonization severely reduces their numbers.  Heavy deforestation also occurs in many parts of this species’…

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Christmas Gift Guide: Pets!

DOGS

1. Dog Friendly Mince Pies

Give them a taste of Christmas. £4.95 on Amazon

2. Christmas Dog Stocking

So they don’t feel left out this Christmas. £7.99 on Amazon

3. Personalised Dog Bone Bauble

So you’ve always got a reminder of them at Christmas. £6.95 on Amazon

4. Turkey and Cranberry Flavour Giant Bone

£8.30 on Amazon

5. Set of 3 Christmas Squeaky Toys

To make sure you don’t fall asleep…

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Animals You May Not Have Heard About: Sunda Colugo

The Sunda Colugo (Galeopterus variegatus) is also known as the Sunda Flying Lemur.

Although, it is not truly a lemur, nor can it fly.

Listed as Least Concern by the IUCN Red List but currently has a declining population trend.

HABITAT

The Sunda Colugo is a forest dependant species living in evergreen forests and sleeping in coconut tress.

MAJOR THREATS

There is a large threat from hunting for…

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Animal Travels: Antarctica

Antarctica is over 5 million square miles and has some extremely well adapted species living there!

PENGUINS There are six species of penguin that call Antarctica home.

Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) Near Threatened 595,000 mature individuals remaining in the wild with no current major threats.

Chinstrap Penguin (Pygoscelis antarcticus) Least Concern Declining population trend can be…

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Christmas Creatures

Happy December!! I’m going to be kicking off the Christmas themed posts now!

REINDEER (Rangifer tarandus)

Relation to Christmas: The Reindeer are well known for pulling Santa’s sleigh. Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph

Fun Facts: – They are known as Reindeer in Europe but Caribou in North America. – They are listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN Red List. – Santa’s…

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Lost Forever: Caribbean Monk Seal

Its time to look backwards at the animals of the past that couldn’t quite survive into our present. This week we will be looking into the Caribbean Monk Seal (Neomonachus tropcicalis) and what ultimately led to its extinction. The Caribbean Monk Seal went extinct in 1952 with the last confirmed sighting off Serranilla Bank. These seals used to inhabit the Caribbean Sea and they were the first type…

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Animal Travels: France

With almost 250,000 square miles of space France is packed with wildlife from the Alpine Ibex to the Common Genet.

ALPINE IBEX (Capra ibex) Listed as Least Concern by the IUCN Red List with a increasing population trend. There is estimated to be around 31420 mature individuals remaining in the wild.

HABITAT, DIET & BEHAVIOUR You can find an Alpine Ibex on open and rocky habitats at high altitudes.…