Are you doing your bit to help save our native species?
Through loss of habitat and the threat from mink, these mammals are in sharp decline and need our help to bring them back from the brink, or we will lose them from our Eco-system!
They have been killed in the past because people mistake them for rats.
The mink is a non native species, introduced from America and they are killing our native water voles, we saw this with the grey squirrel (another non native species introduced from America) and we did nothing to stop it, even after our native red squirrel was nearly wiped out. Now it is happening again.
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About Me
- Rob Ward
- Cinderford, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
- My name is Robin Ward, I was born and I have lived in the Forest of Dean all my life. I consider myself privileged to live in such a beautiful place. Having a massive passion for all our wildlife I have created a blog as a diary, covering all wildlife. I have also created another blog, dedicated to our beautiful snakes that we have here, in the Forest of Dean. I have been monitoring and surveying areas for the adder and grass snake for many years and will do for the rest of my life. It's not a sin to love wildlife, we need it to survive! Robin Ward
Snakes - 2014 - They're Here!
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Wildlife Comes First
I am not just a photographer. I have always had and always will have a massive passion for wildlife and nature. When I am photographing wildlife I always put the animal first, if I feel it will be too stressful I will move away. Only when I am satisfied that my subjects are relaxed, will I photograph them.
I work hard with our native snakes, surveying and managing certain areas for them in the winter, so they have a good habitat when they emerge from hibernation in the spring. Over the years I have learned a lot and now I never move the snakes for photography purposes. My photographs you see of the snakes are of them in their natural environment.
Some people ask me how I know so much about certain subjects, like our snakes, wild boar and deer? The answer is simple, my passion for our wildlife is overwhelming and I want to learn as much about it as possible.
My photography is just an extension of my passion, my way of showing others what I see.
I am self taught with everything I know, but it doesn't come easy and it doesn't happen over night! I will carry on learning for the rest of my life through reading, research and practice.
Rob
I work hard with our native snakes, surveying and managing certain areas for them in the winter, so they have a good habitat when they emerge from hibernation in the spring. Over the years I have learned a lot and now I never move the snakes for photography purposes. My photographs you see of the snakes are of them in their natural environment.
Some people ask me how I know so much about certain subjects, like our snakes, wild boar and deer? The answer is simple, my passion for our wildlife is overwhelming and I want to learn as much about it as possible.
My photography is just an extension of my passion, my way of showing others what I see.
I am self taught with everything I know, but it doesn't come easy and it doesn't happen over night! I will carry on learning for the rest of my life through reading, research and practice.
Rob
My pic of 2013. Sow
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Friends & My Favourite Sites
- Andy Rouse
- Ben Locke - Forest of Dean Blog
- Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
- NARRS
- Scott Passmore Wildlife Photography
- Forest Creations
- Forest of Dean Informer
- HOOF
- Acrylic Prints
- MCanvas Prints
- South Glos Birder
- Bird Identifier
- Art in Nature
- British Wild Boar
- UK Safari
- Gloster Birder
- RSPB
- The Prince's Rainforests Project
- WWT Slimbridge
- BBC Glos - Nature
- Wild About Britain
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- Pics from BBC Points West
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