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Category: Wildlife
Say’s Phoebes have moved in.
I had been seeing these birds around my house, but didn’t pay much attention to them. After all, I thought they were just little brown birds. My curiosity got the better of me so I grabbed my bird book and determined they are Say’s Phoebes. With some observation, I discovered they have nested above a […]
Cassa-nova in the Making
Sometimes we feel as though we are intruding into private lives, but for Big Bertha and Crinkle Cut, it’s all in a day’s work, the same old, same old….! While we were watching and filming, we heard a snort from the bushes nearby. Was it another male cassowary or a feral pig? We don’t know, […]
Komodo and its Dragons
‘Komodo‘ is a familiar word to most people and almost everyone has heard of the infamous Komodo Dragons, yet few people seem to know much about Komodo Island itself and the stories behind its most famous inhabitants. This arid 390km² island is one of the smaller islands making up an Indonesian chain known as the […]
Flamingoes taking flight with the first rising sun’s beams in Camargue (France)
Le fait de dormir en pleine Camargue nous permet de nous lever pour être sur le point d’observation retenu avant le lever du soleil et une fois arrivés,nous nous immobilisons, sans bruit. Beaucoup d’oiseaux sont proches, au gagnage et ce sont les premiers véhicules qui vont passer, dès qu’il va faire jour, qui vont les […]
Mediterranean Chameleon
He’s back! Our Mediterranean Chameleon that visits our garden casually strolled across the grass as I was working outside yesterday. He looked up at me and walked slowly up to my leg. Amazed, I stared talking to him like some mad man. I then picked him up to see how he was and saw that […]
2 Days in Nairobi (Day 2)
OK, long time between blogs but been busy, busy, busy…… been travelling including Pakistan, no chance to go photographing birds though unfortunately! Karachi must hold the biggest population of Black Kite in the world. Literally thousands rise into the late afternoon skies. Anyway I digress this is a little account of my 2nd day in […]
Stop Apache Alaska from Launching Airgun Attack on Cook Inlet’s Endangered Beluga Whales
Beluga Whale (Delphinapterus leucas) photo by Brian J. Skerry The Beluga Whale, commonly called the White Whale, is a marine mammal living in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic areas of the world. From a conservation perspective, the beluga is considered “near threatened” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature; however the subpopulation from the Cook […]