About and Contact

@LeedsBirder

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, or volunteering as a Ranger at a local nature reserve in West Yorkshire. 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. I'm beginning to teach some phonescoping workshops and will be delivering more in 2020, so watch this space or get in touch for a bespoke course. My footage has appeared in the following places:

• 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 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 and got a much more modest twitter reaction when it was shared by the TV's QI!

If you want to get in touch, drop me a line on twitter or fill out the form opposite to send me an email.