Dave Jackson

Northampton, UK

Dave made the transition from still photography to video in June 1995 on the day Canon released their first 20x magnification camcorder. Armed with his new camcorder and a 5x converter he drove overnight to Scotland where a King Eider became the first of many rare birds to be captured on film.
Three months later his interests in rare birds took him to Suffolk where a North American vagrant, a Red-eyed Vireo gave him the idea of a name for his amateur film making – Red-eyed Video Productions.
He has produced videos of rare and scarce birds in his adopted county, Northamptonshire, since 1995 and regularly travels abroad with the Northants Bird Club & independently making DVDs of the trips which he presents to other bird clubs and societies. These include Morocco, The Gambia, South Africa and Panama.
A full time job and twin boys puts a strain on his free time although he hopes to make one birding trip a year with his Sony HDR-FX7 high definition video camera fitted with a Sony 1.7x HD lens to record new birds.
IBC Personal statistics:

• First material posted on 5 September 2007
• Number of videos posted: 201 covering 159 species (1.59%)
• Number of photos posted: 10 covering 8 species (0.08%)
• Number of sounds posted: 3 covering 3 species (0.03%)