Over the years, the Metro newspaper has had some great pictures in it. Today’s Metro had another example of brilliant wildlife photography with sea otters snoozing off the coast of Moss Landing, California. Beautiful! (Picture: Michael Yang/Rex Features)
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Otterly brilliant picture
Posted in arts, the sea, tagged environment, nature, photography on October 28, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Great news from the RSPB – Small birds bounce back
Posted in environment, green, natural world, tagged birds, environment, green, natural world, rspb on April 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Small birds bounce back 31 March 2011 Over 600,000 people took part in this year’s RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch, a record breaking number watching their garden birds. And their counts revealed that some of the smaller birds that decreased in numbers last year, bounced back this year. Sightings of goldcrests, the UK’s smallest birds, doubled, [...]
Boys, Beer, Birds and Bingley: the randomness of a perfect afternoon
Posted in environment, history, natural world, personal, tagged conservation, environment, history, me on April 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I meant to write this some days ago, but I am discovering that work is eating the hours as never before. It’s not only when you are having fun that time flies… But last Sunday afternoon was perfect for late March. I spent the best of it at The White Lion in Fobbing, drinking jars [...]
We breed ‘em tough in Basildon… Chickens that is
Posted in current affairs, natural world, weird, tagged environment, farming, me, weird on March 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Coming from a farming family who, in latter days, have kept chickens and ducks, whilst growing large quantities of over-sized vegetables, I have always taken a philosophical view of nature’s brutalities and the fact that foxes are a constant threat. In my youth I was a fan of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox, which I regard as a [...]
Bird songs and calls – a lucky buy
Posted in natural world, personal, tagged environment, me, natural world on January 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Popping in to town with Emma yesterday, we dipped into The Works for the last day of their sale. There I found a copy of Geoff Sample’s Garden Bird Songs and Calls. I have always wanted to be able to identify bird song properly. This book is accompanied by a CD and, ripped to my [...]
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