You may have heard the expression “cat among the pigeons”. Last week I experienced a similar situation but involving a Sparrow Hawk. Whilst strolling across open farmland around Croagh Bay on the west coast of Ireland, I heard the alarm calls of several bird species including starlings and blackbirds. That’s when I saw the culprit […]
White Faced Heron, Stewart Island, New Zealand
First Post This is the first of a series of posts I hope to make about the birds we see around our village of Oban (Stewart Island, New Zealand, not the Scottish Oban !!). My name is Peter Tait, and with my wife Iris operate a homestay and nature guiding business on Stewart Island. You […]
Twee dagjes Lauwersmeer.
In maart heb ik twee dagen rondgereden en gelopen in het Lauwersmeer gebied. In tegenstelling tot wat ik meestal doe, beginnen bij de bovenkant van dit prachtige gebied, ben ik deze keer via de onderkant gereden. Meestal heb ik daar geen tijd meer voor als ik via de bovenkant van het gebied rond ga. Het […]
A Magical Place
The magical place I speak of is called Blue Cypress Lake. Blue Cypress Lake is located 18 miles west of Vero Beach, Florida, in Indian River County. The lake is 6,500 acres and has an average depth of 8 feet. It gets its name from the blue appearance of the cypress trees as the morning […]
Zwarte Ibis
Afgelopen week van een vogelliefhebster een tip gekregen over de zwarte Ibis die nabij de Lepelaarplassen zou verblijven. Had ook al op het forum van de fotoclub hierover iets gelezen. Afeglopen week in Amsterdam verbleven en ‘s avonds even op pad geweest om deze weinig voorkomned vogel in Nederland op de foto te krijgen. De […]
A Pine in the backside or valued wildlife?
One ofBritain’srarest mammals has bred on the island of Mull for the first time with three Pine Marten kitsreportedlyseen in April. No one is sure how the ‘Pineys’ made it across the sound of Mull from the mainland but they are causing mixed reactions from the locals with people worried about their impact on preying […]
Living Alphabet
A slave to plant cryptography, she feels the garden’s myths pass through stems, a living alphabet of growth. • Eastern black carpenter ant | Camponotus pennsylvanicus