Episode Seven: Garden bird photography – setting up perches
In the seventh episode of BBC Wildlife Magazine's Photography Masterclass, presenter Mark Carwardine discusses how to set up perches and take brilliant photos of garden birds.

In the seventh episode, presenter Mark Carwardine discusses how to set up perches and take brilliant photos of garden birds in this short expert masterclass.
The series will consist of ten videos in total, released weekly on Thursdays from 15 April. For each episode, free fact sheets are available to download from Mark Carwardine's website.
Watch the seventh episode now:
- Episode One: In The Field with Sam Hobson
- Episode Two: Wildlife photography hotspots – Snettisham, North Norfolk
- Episode Three: Interview with Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020 winner Sergey Gorshkov
- Episode Four: How to use backgrounds to take a great wildlife photograph
- Episode Five: Ultimate wildlife hides – interview with Bence Mate
- Episode Six: How to photograph badgers in the garden
About the presenter
Zoologist Mark Carwardine is a widely published wildlife photographer, an award-winning writer, a TV and radio presenter, a best-selling author of more than 50 books, and an outspoken environmentalist.
He was also Chair of the Judging Panel of the prestigious ‘Wildlife Photographer of the Year’ competition for seven years and was selected as one of ‘The World’s 40 Most Influential Nature Photographers’ in Outdoor Photography magazine.

He presented BBC Radio 4’s weekly programme Nature for many years and is best known for his Last Chance to See books, radio series and TV series with the late Douglas Adams and Stephen Fry. He has been writing a conservation column in BBC Wildlife magazine every month since 2004.
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