Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)

This October (2011), Loughborough proved an excellent location to meet with like-minded photographers to document the rut at Bradgate Park and to shoot some birds of prey nearby. We stayed at the Horseshoe Cottage farm, an excellent warm and homely experience, in a recently restored 200 year old stone farmhouse and barns in Leicestershire’s beautiful Carnwood Forest. We arose at 5.50am to catch the sunrise and worked through the day, breaking only for food, to catch the sunset. The deer were in fabulous form and we caught a number of stags rutting nearby.