Karen Miller Photography

Karen Miller Photography Professional wildlife photographer & guide in Scottish Highlands. Card & prints available via website
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Wildlife photographer & Guide, host of The Drey Inchberry a short-stay rental cabin in the Scottish Highlands.

I'm off on a couple of boat trips over the next few days so hoping to have images from those to share soon. For now tho...
02/09/2026

I'm off on a couple of boat trips over the next few days so hoping to have images from those to share soon. For now though, here's a young bank vole. It first appeared when an adult was out and was half the size. Once the adult disappeared it returned and showed really well.

I've been down in Perthshire for a few days visiting family. I only used my camera on one occasion, and that was to pho...
30/08/2026

I've been down in Perthshire for a few days visiting family. I only used my camera on one occasion, and that was to photograph one of the three squirrels who are visiting my parents' garden. No girls, just boys, but this one was in and out on a damp Thursday morning. Sweet little guy.

Last October I visited the Dinn of Lee near Braemar and walked the circular Glen Lui trail, it was very picturesque. I d...
26/08/2026

Last October I visited the Dinn of Lee near Braemar and walked the circular Glen Lui trail, it was very picturesque. I did think however that it would look even better with the heather in bloom. So today I returned, and yes, even more stunning. The water was crystal clear, the sky (at times) blue and the soft pinks of the flowering heather carpeted the ground. It really is a very beautiful part of Scotland.

Little in the way of wildlife although I found a wood ant nest and a common lizard. A young robin came to say hello while we enjoyed Fisher & Donaldson fudge donuts in the carpark.

25/08/2026

Off topic, but I wanted to pay my respects to the late Dolly Parton. Such an incredible woman who did so much for so many. I never saw her play live (although I did see her at Porter Wagoner's funeral). I'm shocked, saddened and stunned. Her original of "I Will Always Love You" is one of my favourite songs, and has extra resonance today. RIP Dolly

A few of the smaller characters at my squirrel site right now. Bank voles and a shrew (pygmy I think, it's tiny). Havi...
25/08/2026

A few of the smaller characters at my squirrel site right now. Bank voles and a shrew (pygmy I think, it's tiny). Having checked my field diary from the past few Augusts, it does seem as though this is a time of year when the voles at my sites have shown well.

And a head's up, I recorded a piece at my site with Mark Stephen today for the BBC Radio Scotland Out of Doors programme about me, wildlife and photography. I'll share a link when it broadcasts. Great to catch up with Mark again.

I've been spending a fair bit of time this last week playing with the voles, shrew and the odd squirrel at my squirrel s...
24/08/2026

I've been spending a fair bit of time this last week playing with the voles, shrew and the odd squirrel at my squirrel site. The voles really are adorable and trying to photograph the shrew is posing quite a challenge for all sorts of reasons, fun though! I'll share some images of them shortly, But, I've had 2 different male squirrels. Today was one I don't think I recognised. Relatively young by the thin tail but although not confident enough to sit and eat a nut he was in and out a number of times today. Very sweet.

These aren't new images sadly, but were taken in mid August 2020. I called this little mountain hare leveret Tiny Tim. ...
23/08/2026

These aren't new images sadly, but were taken in mid August 2020. I called this little mountain hare leveret Tiny Tim. He was quite nervous and the most introverted of the four youngsters I had the privilege of following that summer/autumn. First time I spotted him he was teeny tiny and he only appeared for a second before disappearing into the hole behind. It was a few weeks before I saw him again (I looked on every trip) and after that he was a regular part of my visits to the hill.

22/08/2026

A number of pine martens visit my squirrel site. At the moment aside from the adults there are a pair of kits. I put a camera on my feeder box last week and here's some of the footage of the two of them. Delightful to watch.

Not only are a couple of bank voles showing well at my squirrel site, but there's a shrew as well. It appears from one ...
21/08/2026

Not only are a couple of bank voles showing well at my squirrel site, but there's a shrew as well. It appears from one of the same locations as the voles, shoots out at 100000 miles an hour, grabs a bit of peanut and disappears, all so quickly it's nigh on impossible to photograph. I hate to fail at anything though, so I set myself the challenge of capturing it on camera. I didn't have much success, this was the best I could do. Very sweet little thing.

It's both and so what better way to mark both with images taken of orangutan in Malaysian Borneo last year. This wa...
19/08/2026

It's both and so what better way to mark both with images taken of orangutan in Malaysian Borneo last year. This was truly a trip of a lifetime for me, somewhere I'd been very keen to visit. Top of my bucket list was to see Orangutan in the wild and I was privileged to see three, two with youngsters. It wasn't easy to photograph them though due to the jungle foliage, but watching was a thrill. They are incredible, special, animals and it's heartbreaking that so few now remain wild and free.

Much easier for watching and photographing were those visiting the feeding stations at the Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre. I could have spent hours there but opening hours are very limited. The orangutan were fantastic to watch and I fell head over heals in love with one of the youngsters, who was quite a handful for mum to deal with, but had such a great, entertaining personality.

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