Introduction

Subjects For Filming

If you want to film wildlife as an amateur, or are hoping for a future career in the profession, then it is likely that your first subjects will be either the wildlife in your own garden, wildlife you encounter on holiday, or wildlife encountered as a result of a special trip with this aim in mind. Let’s look at these three locations in more detail:

Garden Wildlife

There are lots of advantages to filming in your own backyard: all your equipment is at hand, there are no travel costs, you get to know your subjects through daily observation and so on. Even small city gardens can be host to a wide variety of interesting wildlife – from birds attracted to your bird table, to wasp nests to butterflies to hedgehogs. Even larger wild animals such as foxes are becoming more common in the urban garden. People with larger rural gardens may be lucky enough to encounter other photogenic creatures such as badgers, deer, weasels and many rodents.......