Pacific Oysters
There are Pacific Oyster farms on the River Dart. They are an introduced species and resolutely refuse to stay where the farmers …
Buteo buteo
Watching a Buzzard being mobbed is always a fascinating experience. This one has two Carrion Crows in close attendance. They dive, and …
Rook and Peregrine Falcon meet
There’s a Peregrine Flacon flying over the River Dart. The last time I saw one here it was ‘buzzing’ an Osprey with …
Curlew C5
I was on a cruise up the River Dart with Mike Langman recently when he spotted an Eurasian Curlew. I love to …
Cloaca
Birds, like most vertebrates, apart from many mammals, have a cloaca. Cloaca is Latin for sewer and is the combined intestinal, urinary …
Ospreys on the Dart
The River Dart is one of the most beautiful rivers in England. Rising high on Dartmoor, it runs for nearly fifty miles …
Osprey photobombed by a Peregrine
We were on a trip up and down the River Dart in South Devon with Mike Langman in search of migrating Ospreys. …
The Harbour Seal and the giant Bass
There’s a Harbour Seal tucking into a giant bass in the River Dart. It’s clearly dropped it and recovered it as two …