Red Squirrel
I was recently fortunate enough to visit Simon Phillpotts up in the Yorkshire Dales (find out more about Simon at www.wilddales.co.uk).
He’d been very busy building a new red squirrel hide and wanted to give it a test drive. It was getting to be the time of year when the squirrels were starting to get very busy Continue reading
Southern Hawker
Its late summer and already the weather is feeling very autumnal. I recently visited one of my favourite secluded dragonfly haunts and found the southern hawkers and common darters still zooming about and dancing over the water.
Hawker dragonflies are a fearless and highly competitive dragonfly species. They spend most of their time in flight hunting out smaller insects as prey. Continue reading
Poppies at Sunset
Poppies are one of Britain’s most iconic flowers. I’ve been trying to develop my landscape and wildflower photography skills, at times its been an exercise in frustration. Continue reading
Fox and Leveret
June is the season for leverets. March may be the famous month for seeing the “mad March hares” boxing in courtship, but hares live in the arable fields surrounding the Ridgeway all year round. They raise their young in late spring into early summer.
During the day hares hunker down into their “forms”. Dawn and dusk are perfect times to watch them. Continue reading