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, 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.

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.

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!