{"id":54934,"date":"2025-05-18T11:54:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T11:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/shropshire-photographer-captures-beauty-of-back-garden-wildlife\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T11:54:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T11:54:47","slug":"shropshire-photographer-captures-beauty-of-back-garden-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/shropshire-photographer-captures-beauty-of-back-garden-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Shropshire photographer captures beauty of back garden wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Vanessa Pearce<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photographer Andrew Fusek Peters captured a goldfinch with rainbow-effect wings in his Shropshire garden<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A photographer has spent a decade carrying out “garden safaris” in order to capture the diversity and beauty of Britain’s back garden wildlife.<\/p>\n

The images, including battling birds and squabbling squirrels, showed just what could be found “under our noses”, said Andrew Fusek Peters. <\/p>\n

“I wanted to celebrate the everyday stories and reveal the beauty of our birds, mammals and insects that live alongside us,” the Shropshire photographer added. <\/p>\n

Hundreds of his images feature in a new book.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Two red squirrels were captured fighting in a back garden on the Isle of Wight <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The majority of the photographs were taken in his “modest” garden, and local village of Lydbury. <\/p>\n

“You don’t have to travel to nature reserves or mountains,” he said. <\/p>\n

“I sometimes get snobbery from the big photographers who go to Africa and do the lions and tigers, or Greenland for the Polar bears,” he explained. <\/p>\n

“And they think I’m somehow inferior because I do blue tits in the garden.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The photographer set up a hide on a domestic lawn to capture this rare image of a mother hare suckling her leveret<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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But, he added, capturing rare images such as a hare feeding her leveret on someone’s back lawn was “just amazing”.<\/p>\n

“At the time I took it, that had been photographed maybe less than 10 times in the world,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It was sheer gold on my memory card.”<\/p>\n

He had also travelled to other parts of the UK in order to capture other “extraordinary moments,” including a fox family playing in Clapham, south London, and a pair of red squirrels on the Isle of Wight. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This pair of brightly coloured bramblings fighting over food was one of the photographer’s favourite shots<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Mr Fusek Peters started concentrating on his own garden wildlife after a diagnosis of bowel cancer in 2018, perfecting a technique<\/a> to “make time stop” to get shots of birds and butterflies taking off and in mid flight. <\/p>\n

Using his kitchen as a hide, he has also taken rare pictures of birds<\/a> – showing the effect of diffraction on their wings, giving a rainbow effect. <\/p>\n

“This winter I got a woodpecker and a nuthatch” he said, adding the images were “extraordinary”.<\/p>\n

“Everyone’s going to accuse me of using AI, but it’s not – it’s actually scientific.”<\/p>\n

He added he was “one of the few in the world” to have taken such images.<\/p>\n

“I just seem to have this blessed luck when I concentrate on what’s out of the kitchen window.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This image of a nuthatch is among the collection<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The book was also a “rallying cry” to transform “over-manicured spaces into more wildlife friendly havens,” he said. <\/p>\n

“These places are important, I think they really are,” he added. <\/p>\n

“As we know with climate change and with what’s happening with habitat a lot of species are really suffering, and that includes our garden visitors so it’s important to showcase them. <\/p>\n

“They are just as important as all the wonderful creatures of the jungle and the desert,” he added. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A fox family plays in Clapham, South London<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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This image of a ruby tailed wasp is included in the book <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Springwatch presenter Iolo Williams said of the book, Garden Safari: “Andrew makes the ordinary look extraordinary \u2013 stunning photography which helps to emphasise the importance of our gardens for wildlife.”<\/p>\n

“I think this is the best compliment I’ve ever had,” the photographer commented. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A male pied flycatcher is captured bringing food to the nest<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The photographer said it took six days to capture this image of a bank vole in his back garden<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Garden Safari is published by Graffeg Books<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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