Interested in all forms of wildlife, Nigel’s commitment to birds and birdwatching started in 1973. Since then his passion for birdwatching has taken him to most of Europe and the Middle East, Africa, North, Central and South America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and several Pacific Islands.
In 1982 he co-founded 'Wingspan' a Birdwatching Tour Company, with world-wide destinations. Then in 1984, he began working for the BBC, Natural History Unit, joining the Sound Library on a permanent basis in 1985, went on his first sound recording trip, to Israel, in April of that year, and caught the recording 'bug'. Since then he has worked on many BBC wildlife programmes and series, ( see credits ).
He began running the Sound Library in 1988, with duties split between advising and supplying productions with wildlife sounds from the collection, operating the studio to process new recordings into the collection and location sound recording. In April 1996, he was made redundant from the BBC and went freelance, as a Wildlife Sound Recordist and Sound Editor.
He set-up ' Wild Fx Ltd.' , which markets Wildlife effects CD's to Production Houses and Film Companies, and continues to add to his own Wildlife Sound Library called ' Natural Fx ' which sells sound per recording - to date over 50 hours of recordings from 11 countries, containing 230 bird species, 30 mammal species, insects, amphibians, countryside effects and a large range of atmospheres giving good coverage of Europe, Africa and beyond.
Since becoming freelance he has worked for a number of leading television
companies as a location Sound Recordist. Produced, edited and mastered
several CDs for commercial release, and recently, planned and supplied
the sound for the Botanical House in the Wildscreen @ Bristol building.