The Third Ladybird Book of British Birds – #17 The Great Crested Grebe
I’m currently reading the third volume of the Ladybird Book of British Birds and their nests from the 1950s. Times have changed: …
An unhappy face
Fish never look very happy when they’re about to be eaten. This Norwegian Topknot for instance, isn’t terribly amused at being caught …
2018 highlights of a wilder London life
I spent a few days in London in 2018 and managed to squeeze in a couple of trips to The Regent’s Park. …
Feathered friends
There’s time to visit Stover Country park and see some wildlife today. I’m taking my dad along so he can experience one …
The tale of the Grebe and the Slider
There’s a Great Crested Grebe on a nest in the middle of the Lake. I’m looking at it closely when I realise …
Great Crested Grebe
There’s a Great Crested Grebe on the lake at Ham Wall RSPB Reserve in Somerset one minute, and the next, it’s gone. …
Great Crested Grebe – forty years ago in my nature notebooks
They have been mouldering in my loft for the last forty years but I’ve just got out my old pencil sketches of …