Less than 40 years ago the Pacific gray whale was considered to be on the verge of extinction…and so it was. After years of commercial hunting numbers had been reduced to a level where it was feared that the population was so low that they could not recover. However, within the last five years this […]
Malay Lacewing
My choice for the most beautiful butterfly in Southern Asia is the MalayLacewing (Cethosia biblis). A member of the Nymphalidae family with it’s origin thought to be in the Philippines, this lacewing prefers Passifloria species (passion flower) for feeding.
Known Biters
For a brief time when we were first married, my wife worked at a daycare center. She mentioned one evening that some of the kids had “KB” annotated next to their names on some list they used to organize activities, with “KB” shorthand for “known biters.” Those known biters required just a bit more vigilance […]
Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus)
Feast your eyeballs on the glory of this badass Roadrunner…he actually sat there so I could get a full frame of his head. What a beast!….Okay, side note then: I guess the actual post looks the same but not really into the new editing stuff, meh. Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) Jill Wussow Photography
Rituals of Spring ~ Returning Seasonal Residents
It is usually trills and twitters floating through the landscape here at Flower Hill Farm that alerts me to returning warblers and other songbirds. The earliest seasonal resident to return is the American Woodcock (Scolopax minor) and the male is still flying high each new dawn and dusk, performing his wing-song mating flight.Considered a shore […]
Chaotic Grace
Waiting for the blade to bend, stranded on a windblown space tower, a beetle on the lam moves with chaotic grace. • Scarab beetle
Hindmarsh Island, South Australia
Not strictly UAE news admittedly, however I have to blog about this place. I have visited twice now whilst visiting Stunmy brother in South Australia. Flanking the Island is the Coorong National Park I have absolutely fallen in love with the place – it is one of the most beautiful wetlands I have ever visited. […]
April Showers- Birds and Fish and Cetaceans & Feathers?
Farmers were delighted with rain that fell most days during this first week of April. I can’t say that it’s been easy to show people the birds during this very wet time, although afternoons were generally better and we managed to see quite a lot of avian migrants that had come in from Africa. Visit […]