Purple Heron
More often than not, whenever I came across Purple Herons (Ardea purpurea) around ponds and waterways in Portugal it was usually them, with exceptional eyesight, who saw me first and…
Friday Flashback – Bison
Today's Friday Flashback is from 2nd March 2018 and is entitled 'Bison'. A nice snowy cooling shot for the middle of summer! Originally taken in February of 2016, this is…
Cub In The Grass 2
I first issued ‘Cub in the Grass’ over ten years ago now, featuring a young grizzly bear cub in the Khutzeymateen in northern BC.Today we have another ‘cub in the…
Friday Flashback – Beauty in the Creek
Today's Friday Flashback is from 2nd February 2018 and is entitled 'Beauty in the Creek'. A two-shot flashback to the early days of the young female grizzly bear known as…
Portuguese Postcard
Sitting amongst a carpet of yellow chamomile an almost intact ‘Moinho de Vento’ stands motionless in the dying light of a spring day. Traditionally, in the not too distant past,…
Friday Flashback – It Looks Just Like A Dogs!
Today’s Friday Flashback is from 5th January 2018 and it entitled ‘It Looks Just Like A Dog’s!’. An amusing story from one of my field trips to kickstart this year’s…
A Couple Of Buzzards
Here we see a couple of Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo), or do we? Whilst both share the same title, the one above is the ‘Azorean' common buzzard’ (Buteo buteo rothschildi)…
Never Look Back…
...why not? Many optimists say you should ‘never look back’, but when you’re a chameleon it really isn’t a problem! These fascinating reptiles have independent moveable eyes, so they can…
Just Swimming By 3
These two shots of a female grizzly bear swimming by in the Khutzeymateen inlet are part of a trilogy, (the first in the sequence, a head-on shot, can be seen…
Yellow Iris
This attractive bright yellow flower - the ‘Yellow Iris’ (Iris pseudacorus), is also known as the ‘Yellow Flag Iris’ in some parts. It is a native plant of European wetlands,…
The Amazing Pin-tailed Whydah
As I’m sure a lot of you will already know, many birds can take on quite a transformation during the breeding season. More often than not, especially when I’m travelling,…
Perez’s Frog
Here are a couple of different looking frogs, that are the same! As well as being known as ‘Perez’s’ frog, this species is also known as the Iberian water frog,…
Wrestling Buddies
We’ve seen these two guys wrestling on a few occasions such as in ‘Prize Fighters’ and ‘Fighting Grizzlies’ and as I mentioned in both these posts these two guys weren’t…
Polpo Anybody?
This could also have been called ‘The Eagle and the Octopus 2’ as it is a direct prequel to the image in the original article by that name. This is…
Mongoose Pups
Here we can see three young banded mongoose pups watching from the entrance to their home - a termite mound! During my visit to Tanzania I was told that mongoose…