Photography competition winners 2024

Winners of the annual photography competition 

The entries for the 2024 photography competition have been on display over the festive period and visitors have been asked to vote for their overall favourite after the judges made their choices for each category. The results are in and the winning photograph is of a tawny owl which was taken by Andrea Mapplebeck. A difficult woodland species to see, let alone photograph.

This photograph was also the winner of the Best Birdlife category, where the highly commended photographs were Dave Ruffles for his grey wagtail, Andrea Mapplebeck for a Tawny owl flying and Jack Emmanuel for a  marsh harrier in flight.

The other winning photos for the different categories were 

Best Invertebrate

Winner Pat Hogarth – Willow Emerald 

Highly commended     Leanne Martin – Muslin moth 

                                      Steve Browne – Common darter

 

Best botanical

Winner Pat Hogarth – Cow parsley

Highly commended                Alan Gray – Lots of fungi

Les Frost – Sticky ink cap

Best Landscape

Winner Geraldine Gray – South marsh west

Highly commended     Danielle Clegg

                                      Alan Gray

Best wildfowl

Winner Steve Browne – Shoveler in flight

Highly commended     Jack Emmanuel – female teal

 

Best kingfisher

Winner Dave Ruffles

Highly commended     Andrea Mapplebeck

                                      Les Frost

Young photographer

Winner Artur (Children’s university group) Bee on daisy

Highly commended     Hamza (Kingsmill)

 

Best livestock

Winner Joanna Godfrey – goats with cattle egret

Highly commended     Les Frost

                                      Pat Hogarth

Best animal

Winner Steve Browne – Hedgehog

Highly commended     Geraldine Gray – Grass snake

 

Best wading bird

Winner Jack Emmanuel – Snipe

Highly commended     Pat Hogarth – cattle egret

                                      Dave Ruffles – little egret

 

Thank you to all the visitors who entered this year's competition and showed what a great variety of wildlife uses the diverse habitats that we have here at the reserve. 

And well done to all the winners. Time to start to take photos for next year!