Wasp – or just ‘wasp-like’?
More notes from the wonderful world of ‘How did I not know this stuff was out there?”, aka ‘Wandering around Great Chalfield having fun and learning something new at the same time’.
Gordon Ramsay: apparently not an animal lover after all…
Potty-mouthed, belligerent, shouty, irascible, narcissistic ‘celebrity chef’ (and that’s just a small selection of the descriptions used in online newspaper articles) Gordon Ramsay has been helping out Norway’s whalers by proving that while he is a bit narked about people …
Panlisting at Great Chalfield, May 13th
‘Pan’ what now? Yes, you probably missed it, but Tris and I are having a go at ‘panlisting’ – ie recording everything we find in our ‘patches’ (which for me is the wonderful Great Chalfield Estate in Wiltshire where I live). Panlisting is a wonderful thing to do, BUT – how the blinking, flipping Hell do people do it?
Operation Turtle Dove
I would imagine that most of us have heard of the Passenger Pigeon – a once very common species that was forced to extinction by man in a very short space of time. The Turtle Dove could be the European equivalent of this if we …
Tattoo time again – Pallid Scops Owl
Yesterday evening saw me back at Immortal Art Studio for bird number four to be tattooed onto my right arm sleeve (bird number fifteen in total). The bird to test the superb skills of Richard Batey was the ever enigmatic …
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{ We went to Iceland in 2009, they had Minke on the menu as 'fish'. I guess that the mislabelling it... } – May 17, 10:39 AM
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{ Nice one, Tris! } – May 14, 7:29 PM
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{ Lovely photos, Charlie, no need for 'depth of field' protestations! Fascinating the world of kleptoparasitism and other such antics going... } – May 11, 3:59 PM
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{ Hi Josh – very much an issue, but the issues are multivariate and also remember “our” Turtle Doves are not... } – May 11, 2:30 PM
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