Episode Seven: Garden bird photography – setting up perches

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.

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.

Mark Carwardine is the presenter of the BBC Wildlife Photography Masterclass series

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.