A young photographer's adventures in the world of natural history
As young naturalist Dara McAnulty notes in his excellent blog, its a lot harder to blog about this month's wild moments than it is to experience them: wildlife pervades our daily lives no matter where you live, although it may be that some of us need to spend some time 'tuning in' to the natural …
The day started with a proverbial bang in the morning, when a message came through on the VH radio that an Ocean Sunfish was lolling about in the sea just off Pen Cristin. I’d just returned from a morning walk, so sprinted up the hill to join Mark and Sian, before locking on to this …
The overpowering heat today made doing anything outside rather exhausting either side of dawn and dusk. That said, the calm and sunny weather made for ideal conditions to carry out this month’s BeeWalk survey. This year I decided to set up a Bee-recording transect on the island as part of a wider national citizen science …
It's a belated post for Day 18 of #30DaysWild, but it was a superb day! Easily one of the year's hottest days yet, temperatures climbed to over 20'C (a rarity here!) during the midday sun; with barely a breath of wind and no cloud cover, it felt pretty toasty! I took an early morning wander …
The morning dawned warm and still; the ground heavily laden with dew from a clear night, although this moisture evaporated away rapidly as the intense sun climbed to its azimuth, producing orographic cloud over the mountain throughout the morning . A placid sea meant the weekly visitor change-over could go ahead, and so it was another …
It was the World of invertebrates that caught my attention for today's #30DaysWild. After a busy few days helping out with seabird ringing and census work, a small mound of niggling jobs has slowly crept upon me. The blessing of spring and summer, though, is that you have to but step out of the door …
It was not a morning for early rising: taking advantage of the brief hiatus in strong winds yesterday, we decided to try mist-netting Storm Petrels on Pen Cristin into the darkness of the night. Being close to the summer solstice and with a bright gibbous moon rising on the eastern horizon, that meant a pretty …
