British Wildlife Centre ~ Keeper's Blog

Friday, 28 December 2012

BWC Photo Comp; "Animal Portraits" Short List

"Animal Portraits" was the most entered category of the competition, and the quality of the photos were simply amazing! It was great to see not only "our" animals in here, but also some of our wild residents such as our herons, voles and even invertebrates. Unsurprisingly the most popular animal for this category was the fox, maybe a little surprisingly the most popular fox was Frodo, not Flo... keeping up his reputation of arguably the most photographed fox in the world!

Coming up with a short list of only ten images (half that of last years) was no easy task, and so many great photos had to miss out, but below are the final ten for the running.

"Animal Portrait" Short List for BWC Photo Comp 2012

"Cats Eyes" - Martin Images - submitted via flickr

"Grass Snake" - Dee Maddams - submitted via email

"Red Squirrel" - Ajb2003 - submitted via flickr

"Otter" - Furtographerphil - submitted via flickr

"Harvest Mouse" - Ian Lewry - submitted via email

"Will it be dark soon?" - Malcom Biles - submitted via flickr

"Who's be a rabbit" - Martin Images - submitted via email

"Polecats" - Wendy Salisbury - submitted via email

"A cunning disguise" - Samantha Vaughan - submitted via flickr

"Water Voles" - Ray Darvis - submitted via email

Monday, 24 December 2012

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to everyone who reads this blog, from myself and all the keepers a the British Wildlife Centre!

Thank you all so much for your support of the Centre and the blog, and for all your kind comments and feedback throughout the year. This blog has grown incredibly over the past year to where we are now getting nearly 200 independent hits a day increasing to nearly 400 hits when there has been a post, brilliant!

One more post later this week on the photo competition, then we are all done for 2012, so see you in the new year!

Friday, 21 December 2012

BWC Photo Comp; "Animals in their Habitat" Short List

And so, the last two categories left to announce in the competition are the most popular, with nearly half of the total number of photographs submitted in to one of these. "Animals in their Habitat" and "Animal Portraits"

Today we are announcing the ten finalists for the "Animals in their Habitat" section. Once again, the overall standard was fantastic and caused some discussion between the judges, but below are the short listed images.

"Animals in their Habitat" Short List for BWC Photo Comp 2012