Tour Reports

19th – 30th March & 27th March – 7th April 2023 Every new tour begins with a healthy serving of anticipation and expectation. This is also accompanied with tinges of uncertainty and even trepidation. And the latter are, all the more, acute if the tours goals are primarily focused around seeing and photographing a single…

Along with Kenya’s neighbouring Masai Mara, the Serengeti in Tanzania must be one of the most visited wildlife locations there is. The park’s popularity is rightly justified: it remains one of the very best safari destinations in Africa. Most might assume that this popularity comes at a price and that it is virtually impossible to…

In common with so many, my introduction to Komodo came courtesy of David Attenborough. Zoo Quest for a Dragon was first broadcast in 1956 (well before I was born) and it took Sir David and the film crew some four months to reach the Indonesian island from the UK. Today, the journey is easily manageable…

A young red panda in Singalila Forest We are very fortunate to be around at this time. OK we have to put up with bloody Brexit, buffoons like Boris and Trump and hideous, vacuous TV like Love Island (thank goodness for the off switch), but like no other generation we have the opportunity to indulge…

A female puma (foreground) with two of her near-adult cubs My vote for the most exciting, spine tingling animal to see in the wild will always go to the tiger. The ultimate big cat. But I’d also be the first to admit that the circumstances and situation in many national parks in India can, at…

Tropical rainforests are my favourite habitat and those that remain in Sabah, Borneo (the ones that have thus far avoided being felled to make way for oil palm) are amongst the very best there are anywhere in the world. I’ve been visiting Borneo now for 30 years and it remains one of my favourite haunts,…

A magnificent adult lammergeier or bearded vulture After a successful first venture to Ladakh in 2017 to look for snow leopards, I returned in March 2018 to spend a month in the mountains hoping to improve and expand up on my modest portfolio of images. The month was split very neatly into two halves: for…

A cottonwood encrusted with hoar frost in the Lamar Valley In a previous life, I think I might have been a cowboy. I love the American West: the grandeur of the landscape, the culture, the turbulent recent history, the spectacular wildlife, and of course the movies. Whenever, I visit Montana and Wyoming, I genuinely feel…

One of East Africa’s most recognisable birds, the lilac-breasted roller What might you regard as the greatest wildlife show on earth? An impossible subjective question of course, and one to which there are several potential worthy answers. High up the list of contenders must be the annual migration of wildebeest, zebra and other game around…

Magical early morning light filters through the forest canopy in Kanha It is, in many ways, remarkable that India, the world’s second most populous country should still harbour populations of many species of large mammal, and especially apex predators like big cats. India is the only country in the world with four species of big…