It may only be February, but in the bird world the urge to set up territory and foster a new generation is already strong. I’ve spent time at RSPB Strumpshaw…
Category: Wildlife Blog
Southern Pantanal 2
Southern Pantanal 2 – The Mad Mad Moonlight News came half way through our evening safari of a Jaguar kill. We drove directly to the site where biologists from the…
My 16 Year Old Self
A couple of spare hours between meetings led me, (not for the first time) to Jarrold’s department store here in Norwich, more specifically their basement book store. I love books,…
Southern Pantanal
15th/16th November 2016 – Southern Pantanal The head of the ocelot, such a cryptically patterned beast, could just be seen behind a screen of grass as it sat motionless beside…
Northern Pantanal 2
Saturday 12th November 2016 (late afternoon) – Northern Pantanal It glared at us from baleful lemon yellow eyes, sat atop a tangle of fallen branches and roots. A Ferruginous Pygmy…
Northern Pantanal
Thursday 10th November 2016 – Northern Pantanal We arrived to the ominous sound of rumbling thunder issued from the depths of evil looking clouds that periodically spat jagged forks of…
Cherry Tree
Looking out into the garden, I have a clear view of the remains of a cherry tree. Once a prize specimen with a tight mass of eye smarting, white candy…
Cley Marshes – After the Flood
Cley Marshes – after the Flood is a piece I wrote in December 2013 for Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s blog following the massive North Sea surge which caused so much devastation…
An Oak
There’s a tree by the church. An Oak, twisted and gnarled, ivy clad and sentinel. It grows by the wall; flint and brick, ancient and lichen encrusted, bowed and bent,…
Wildlife Blog – Stubb Mill
Welcome to my Wildlife Blog – Stubb Mill. I penned this account of a bitterly cold afternoon spent at Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s raptor watch point at Stubb Mill, a part…