I have just returned from a week-long trip to the Isle of Mull, an Inner Hebridean Island off the West coast of Scotland. It has to be said, that after only one week I have utterly fallen in love with the Island and hope to return as soon as possible. The trip was organised by […]
The Rainbow Smelt (Osmerus mordax) is a small (6-8 inch) anadromous fish found in rivers and coastal areas of Eastern North America from Labrador south to coastal Maine. In 2004 the U.S. Government declared the Rainbow Smelt to be a species of special concern as both their historical range and populations have been greatly reduced….most […]
Paradise Shelducks The first Paradise Ducks I ever saw on Stewart Island were a group of 4 one or two day old ducklings given to us to raise years ago. They were the survivors of a clutch hatched at the Neck. The parent birds having “immigrated” a couple of years before. Paradise Ducks are very […]
The Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) is a truly impressive bird. It is the largest seabird in the North Atlantic as well as being the largest member of the Gannet family, Sulidae. Whilst on a family holiday to my native Scotland, we took a nostalgic boat trip from town of North Berwick, sailing around the Bass […]
Mark Zuckerberg would not be one of 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world without the help of wasps. I mean the six-legged kind (whether or not two-legged WASPs should get any of the credit is something for attorneys to discuss and will not be addressed here). It’s a lengthy timeline but easy […]
As the sun set over Vejer de la Frontera in Cadiz province, Andalucía , the surrounding area below this white village or ‘pueblo blanco ‘ known as La Janda had been receiving thousands of new migrant birds that arrive in the southern tip of the European mainland and feed up in preparation for their onward […]
Evening Grosbeak Pair (Coccothraustes vespertinus) photos by Larry Jordan That massive beak sported by the Evening Grosbeak (Coccothraustes vespertinus) turns from white to a pearly yellowish-green in breeding season (click on photos for full sized images). I was fortunate to have a flock of these beauties visit me last summer. Here you can see a […]
If you live in Florida, you have just about year around photo ops with the black-bellied whistling duck. In the USA, it can be found also in parts of southeast Texas, seasonally in southeast Arizona and Louisiana’s Gulf Coast. Florida is one of the rare places, in the USA, that it breeds, otherwise in tropical […]