Brittlestar – forty years ago in my nature notebooks
Forty years ago I was scouring the beaches at Tenby looking for any interesting living creatures. As is so common, I only …
Dog Whelk – forty years ago in my nature notebooks
One of the greatest things you can have as a child is a love of the natural world. To have the capacity …
Beadlet Anemone – forty years ago in my nature notebooks
Forty years ago today, on 11 August 1976, I was 12 years old, my family were on holiday in South Wales, and …
A sense of taste
Hardly any bird species have a sense of smell – and that probably means they have very little sense of taste either. …
Casting a shadow upon yourself
Evolution is a wonderful thing. Being grey above and white below is a classic countershading strategy used by many seabirds and often …
Seabird City
Noup Head, the RSPB reserve, is seabird city. Here is a Fulmar, crouching ungainly on the cliffs, waiting to wheel into the air.