Steve Williamson Wildlife Photography

Here we see a ‘Turkey Tail’ (Trametes veriscolor) fungi photographed in a small wooded area on the coast of British Columbia. I guess these large (up to 10cm across) and attractive looking mushrooms got their appropriate name because of their similarity in appearance to the displayed tail feathers of the wild turkey (see below), but that is probably were any connection e...

Here we see a young grizzly bear that looks as though she’s been out getting herself a facial mud mask. This was late fall on the BC coast and why she had been digging in the mud wasn’t fully clear, that is often a springtime activity. However, there is some theory that bears will dig up and eat certain roots and tubers for medicinal purposes. Maybe all the raw and rotti...

I was really surprised one morning last spring and very happy to see for the first time this little guy, the Dartford Warbler (Curruca undata), which landed on a nearby bush as I was walking along a road in the Algarve region of Portugal. Although found in southern England year round, I’d never come across this rare warbler before and they are a species that is considere...

Over in the UK there are six different species of wild deer and on one occasion I was fortunate to come across two very different ones living in close proximity to each other. Firstly we have a Red Deer (Cervus elaphus), these are the largest in the UK and when fully grown males can stand between 1 and 1.5 metres tall. By the fall they have tall antlers that branch out, ...

These small birds, roughly the size of a sparrow and members of the weaver family, love to form in to swarm like flocks of several hundred members, some years thousands. The Red-billed Quelea (Quelea quelea) can be found in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, except ...