More from Shuttleworth: these guys are awesome! The Peacock in the top shot was actually pretty scary! He kept stomping his feet and running around. I think he was a bit scared of the people around him. I gave him plenty of distance, took a couple of shots and got out of his way! The Peacock in the 2nd shot decided he wanted to say hello and walked right up to me!

More from Shuttleworth. I was on the phone to “the G-man” when these ducklings walked right up to my feet! I managed to get a couple of decent shots whilst giving Gurdev a walkthrough on using Adobe Lightroom. I still can’t believe how overly confident these little guys were. I really didn’t expect them to walk right up to us like that.

A couple more shots of the Deer here, the top one is my favourite from the set as I was able to create a frame within a frame with the trees. I have another shot from the same location that I took almost two years ago, you can see it on flickr here.

This post and the next contain a set of photos of the Deer at Woburn Abbey. I tried to get as close as I could without disturbing these guys.  They’re very wary of what you’re doing if you are any where near them on foot but seem to pay little attention to the passing cars!

‘Basil’ as he is affectionately known is a male pheasant that frequents my Mum’s garden.  I caught this shot of him flaunting in front of the lady pheasants a couple of days ago and decided it would make a great blog entry.

I really don’t like these dark evenings, it seems like such a waste to not go out and shoot but there’s just not enough light (even with the 5DII!) This is where Smudge comes in, she’s always around ready and posed for a shot. The only problem is; her fur is so dark that it’s hard to autofocus! the 5DII really shines here using the live view and manual focus is great.