In the pink
Take a moment to look at this magnificent product of natural evolutionary forces and wonder. And then, just when you think life …
How is this possible?
Here’s a taster of what is to come on my blog: I may have just filled my memory card with Greater Flamingoes.
2022 highlights of a wilder Italian life (part 1)
Hooded Crows and koinophilia In Rome in 2022 we could see 300 Hooded Crows in an evening in a single field, as …
Pink Flamingos
I could watch Flamingos all afternoon. Aren’t they curious? Those candy-pink stick-of-seaside-rock legs are my favourite.
A great Greater Flamingo
It’s the evening and a single young Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus is doing its thing in the lake. It’s beautiful, ungainly, magical, and …
Flaming Flamingo
At the Lido di Tarquinia there are Flamingoes. They are such surreal birds: Their reflections don’t look any better. This being Italy, …