HLM Photography

23 year old Wildlife film maker, and a complete Bird Nerd! But I do dabble in other species too.

08/05/2024

The magical Bird Island of Algoa Bay. 🏝️

Home to 90,000 to 100,000 breeding pairs of Cape Gannets. Thus, making it the largest Cape gannet colony in the world! 🌍

Would you ever brave the p**p 💩 to see this birders paradise?

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29/04/2024

Wildlife Ranger Caitlin 💚

Wildlife rangers are a detrimental part to wildlife conservation and rehabilitation. 🌿 Here Caitlin and I waited three days waiting for the parents to return to the underground nest 🪺 before intervening, and removing the quickly thinning chicks. Before sending them to the mainland by Helicopter for rehabilitation. 🚁

Rangers are so important to SANCCOB and other conservation organisations as they act as the emergency response, and first hand medical aid for so many seabirds and penguins. 🐧

25/04/2024

Today is World Penguin Day! So let’s celebrate all our flightless friends from all sides of the world! 🌍

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15/04/2024

The Devoted Parents. 💚
African Penguins are well known for being good parents to their chicks. Ruthlessly protecting the nest and their hatchlings till it’s time to head back to sea. 🌊
They take turns in incubating their eggs, swapping on and off with their partners making sure both that equal opportunities to fish. 🎣

08/04/2024

Nothing quite as amazing as a Jackass Penguin calling 🎶
These tuxedo musicians all have unique calls for their mates, and are most vocal when reunited at the nest or waiting for their partners to return home. 💚

There is no sound quite like the 3am Jackass alarm. ⏰

07/04/2024

Exciting News!

This morning at 9:30 catch footage from Myself and on ITV in Love your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh.

Absolutely thrilled to be able to showcase some of the footage from ‘Gannets of Bass Rock’ on Prime Time Sunday television.

05/01/2024

(accipiter melanoleucus)
There are many different colourations of this beauty, from juvenile all the way up to adulthood. 🖤

This bird for example is a Rufous Fronted Black Sparrow Hawk. ❤️

However, we do occasionally see Pale Fronted too. It’s easy to mix these two up, because as the Rufous spend more time in the sun the UV bleaches their chests and makes them paler. By the time they have finished their first moult there isn’t a lot to decipher the two morphs.
There are also the Melanistic and half melanistic morphs too. However, it is not true Melanism as some may think. 🖤 They are not born jet black but moult into the full black plumage, hence not a true Melanistic bird.
There are many variations of the black sparrow hawks that bless our skies. But one thing is sure, that every country has a different term for the colour morphs of these apex predators

02/01/2024

“Dancing into the New Year”

Nothing quite as cute as a penguin dancing in the sunset to bring us into 2024.

Happy New Year!

16/11/2023

Recovery
The Kenya Bird of Prey trust first established in 2015, and since then has rescued, rehabilitated and released hundreds of Raptors from every corner of Kenya.
The smallest step can make the biggest change for raptor conservation.

08/11/2023

Raptor Rescuer

Introducing Simon Thomsett. A Raptor Specialist with some stories to tell.
This Portfolio takes you deep into Soysambu conservancy to visit a secluded man, in a secluded house, living an incredible life saving life.
The first Life Savers story for HLM Photography.
Link in Bio. 👆🏼

04/11/2023

Gannets, are one of the oceanic birds within the family Sulidae. They are closely related to the well known and globally adored Bo***es. 🍒

01/11/2023

The African Fish Eagle juvenile
(haliaeetus vocifer)

Fish eagles have Four plumages between juvenile and adulthood. At around 4/5 years of age they take on the adult plumage in all its glory.
Learn more about The African Fish Eagle and its fishing friend the Pels Fishing Owl by watching ShareScreen Africa’s YouTube.

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