Profiles of individual or small groups of UK wildlife species, including identification tips, habits, habitats and folklore
A medium sized brown butterfly flies up from almost beneath your feet, flutters away from you for a few metres, lands and disappears. The same performance is repeated until you decide to approach slowly and stealthily to discover the identity of this cryptically coloured insect. Despite being certain of where it landed, you struggle to…
The little boy was lifted up to a bewildering height. Slightly scared, but equally excited, he was able then to peer over the rim of the carefully woven collection of grasses and small twigs into the smooth cup of the nest. There shining back at him were four orbs of the most brilliant blue he…
Who can fail to be enchanted by the sight of a Bullfinch? I vividly remember once seeing a party of four, one male, three females, in my garden some 30 years ago. On that occasion I stumbled downstairs, bleary eyed from slumber, to be greeted by this colourful quartet gorging themselves on the seeds of…
A half seen ghostly white form illuminated by your car headlights as you drive past at dead of night. A brief glimpse of a gliding pale bird buoyantly drifting across your line of vision whilst out for a walk at dusk. The eerie, hair raising screech from that silent spectral churchyard. These are the usual…