About Me

I grew up on the edge of a village in Midlothian, where my bedroom looked out on fields & trees & I've been Birdwatching since about the age of 7 or 8 so over 60 years now. As a boy I used to spend hours each week hunting through the local countryside for birds & when, at the age of 9, the family moved into the city, I missed my rambles so much & even walks through the local parks didn't make up for them, so I started keeping birds in cages & a garden aviary. I specialised in foreign birds & Gloster Canaries & although I kept a couple of British birds, I never felt comfortable seeing them in cages.

My working life has seen me working with birds as a Zoo Keeper, Gamekeeper & Falconer & in recent years I've developed a passion for taking photographs of the birds in my wildlife garden & on my home patch, so all the photos & videos you see on this site were taken, or created, by me.

Cheers,
Dick