Hi, I'm Paul. otherwise known as @LeedsBirder on twitter. I love my wildlife and you can typically find me watching my neighborhood Peregrine Falcons, out and about birding or working on various conservation projects. I enjoy filming wildlife and particularly birds. I'm frequently asked about phone scoping when I'm out and about, so I thought I'd put together this site to pass on my phone scoping experience to others.

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In 2020 I launched my own wildlife experience company: Film Nature, where you can join me to learn about phonescoping or simply enjoy making a wildlife movie in a day.

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Here are some highlights of where my wildlife footage has appeared, including various TV shows:

• My film of Black-necked Grebes appeared on BBC Springwatch in 2018.

• I shot and produced a successful video bid for £357,000 funding to purchase a large part of Fairburn Ings nature reserve.

• Early, traffic light nesting Mistle Thrushes went viral and ended up on national TV, on the ITV News at Ten. 

• Footage of waders at Spurn Point was featured in a report on Migfest 2019 on Look North.

• My Kingfisher footage was shown on the Spanish TV channel RTVE on Aqui La Tierra. 

• Two of my short wildlife films made the Official Selection at the Get Smart Film Festival 2019.

• I won the September monthly prize for the 2017 Digiscoper of the year competition run by Swarovski, for my Waxwing Heaven film.

• I've appeared in Audubon Science with a Black Heron video that went mildly viral on t'internet. It keeps going viral when it gets reposted by other people. Can't resist playing the nightime daytime game!

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