Category: Wildlife
Many of Britain’s breeding swifts and maybe some of our swallows pass over this floodplain en route to and from southern Africa too. After all, when it is flooded …
Our Malian adventure had started in Bamako, Mali’s bustling, sometimes steamy capital, from where we travelled by road in a minibus to Segou. On the way we passed women …
A Cruise With a Difference From a distance they looked like giant bumblebees. And in this part of Africa, I thought perhaps they could be. But as our boat …
On the Icelandic mainland, escaped mink (once reared for their fur) now living wild are a major problem for many ground-nesting birds, not just eiders. The Icelandic Government supports …
Each nest we find, the female eider comes zooming off at the last minute, glides down to the sea below to meet up with others, maybe her mate included, …
New Forest Thank Goodneyy for illiam “the Conqueror The barked command woke us both with a start. ‘Don’t move suddenly! Stay where you are!’ We – my walking companion …
Dehesa trees are never left to grow old naturally. They are regularly pruned, the cut branches left on the ground for livestock to graze their leaves. Larger branches are …
For a wildlife enthusiast, it is difficult to convey the riches of the dehesa without talking in superlatives. For amongst the threatened bird species here that depend on this …