A Beginner's Guide to Wildlife Photography: Understanding Tracks and Signs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.พ. 2023
- In this video I visit a new woodland site and spend a couple of hours looking for the tracks and signs of the animals that live there. Developing these skills is essential if you want to become a successful wildlife photographer. Please let me know in the comments below if you would like me to produce more videos like this in greater detail for each individual species. Thanks for watching!
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Photographers have been crying out for a video like this! Many thanks for creating it.
Glad it was helpful! Hopefully more specific species tracks and signs videos to come! thanks for watching👍
Some very good tips in this video Scott. Thanks for sharing mate. One of the biggest things I use is sound. I can hear the particular birds I’m chasing before anything. I can hear them from my house early in the morning. I grab my camera and head down to the nature reserve and start isolating them in the trees/bush then eventually zero in to the particular branch. Every breed has their favorite tree I found, normally which matches their feathers for camouflage. Cheers for the video 🍻🙏
Ah, birds my nemesis mate. I do get most of the common ones but am always amazed at some of the pure birders who can pick out the nuances of the most benign call. Always learning !! Thanks for watching mate👍
Incredibly useful video Scott. Thank you for sharing all the knowledge!
Glad you enjoyed it! Patrik, thanks for watching👍
Another great educational video Scott. Never knew the Munjac droppings were so small.
Cheers Keith, it was amazing what I found in a short space of time and in a small area. Muntjac, like all deer can vary in dropping size. Those where pretty small but the shape was consistant!!😂👍
You are very knowledgeable in this area of finding wildlife to photograph, well done and I am happy with all your explanations and clue of what to look for in the woods......birds and mammals
Many thanks! Always great when people let me know they find the videos useful!👌👍
Loved this Scott, found it really helpful. Didn't realise the Muntjac droppings were so small! Thanks for sharing Mate and I will definitely add this to my photography 📸👍🏽
Glad you enjoyed it Lee. As all deer Muntjac will vary a little depending on size/age of the deer but smallerthan you would think! I will try to include some field signs in my videos going forward👍👍
Cheers Scott, All the best. 👍📷😎
Thanks, you too!👍👍
Always good to see how much effort goes into getting those standout images we see on social media Scott, very few videos on u-tube show the complete process of getting those great shots - would love to see you incorporate that into your vids. on the channel. 👍
Much appreciated! Glenn I will try to remember that going forward, it can sometimes be difficult to remember those small tips when you are essentially doing it all the time. All the best👍
Brilliant Scott. You’ve pitched this at exactly the right level, from my perspective. More like this please, for beginners like me. Thank you.
Thanks David, I will try and incorporate field signs and tracking in my videos going forward. It's all to easy to stick up a hide and forget to tell the audience what was the reasoning behind placing it there!!👍👍
@@scotttilleyphotography Hi Scott. You remarked in the video to “Badger Latrines”. One of my favourite walks, in the Chilterns (central/south Bucks has a hill that looks as though a dog has been scratching at the ground - hundreds of such scrapings within a few hundred yards: about 3” deep, 5” long and 2” wide. Is this likely to be badgers? Thanks for your efforts!
Hi David. This could be a number of things. It could be attributed to badgers as they also dig holes like this in pursuit of worms. However you often find holes like this filled with bagder poo. They often have numerous holes like this in the same area all gradually filling with faeces. It could also be rabbits, are there any other signs such as rabbit holes or again poo? This is why it is important to try and link a number of signs togethor to give you a definative answer. I would do a wider scan of the area for other signs. It may be that you find rabbit holes, or a badger sett in the area.👍👍
Thanks for another excellent and informative video Scott. This is not an area of expertise for me and I learned a number of things that I will be looking out for from now on. Great thing about wildlife photography is that there is always more to learn.
Cheers Paul, as you say we are all constantly learning! I know you could teach me a thing or two on bird photography!! Thanks for watching👍👍
Excellent video ,please do more video.very detailed and helpful.I Wii subscribe to your channel.
Hi, thanks for the feedback. Do you want more tracks and signs videos? Always great to get useful feedback especially from new subscribers! Thanks again!👍
A very good informative video, Scott
Glad it was useful Phil. I will try and remind myself in future videos to include this type of information as part of the video👍
As a beginner wildlife photographer.. I did not expect to spend so much time looking at and for animals poo. It has become a very popular google search of mine. Currently on the hunt for owls and foxes. if you have any secret tips you use. I have seen one but at odd times and I cant decide if, he was travelling home or going on a hunt because of the odd time of day. I seen him a couple of times in the same spot at 9:30am. If you have any ideas?
Hi, thanks for watching. I would try to see if he is carrying food, especially over the next few months. Foxes pair up in January and the female will be having young soon. This is often a good time to find them. If you see his direction of travel I would seach in that direction. Once the young are born and are coming out of the den you often find the ground strewn with bits of bone and bird wings. I usually start looking for this from the end of April onwards. If you want pictures of him I might be tempted to steak out the spot you have seen him. You would need to stay down wind. I have a fox stealing me road kill pheasants I put out at my buzzard hide at the minute!!😂👍