I bet you immediately knew where the A’Mhoine peninsula in Sutherland is didn’t you? It’s where we might build a UK space port. It is described as a remote boggy stretch of land by the BBC, The site may initially host rocket and satellite launches but commercial passenger travel could then follow according to the…
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Paul Leyland – Ruby-tailed Wasp
This beautifully coloured wasp usually appears at this time of year exploring the bee hotel in my garden. Ruby-tailed Wasps, also called Jewell Wasps, parasitize the nests of solitary bees and wasps. The female enters the host’s nest and lays an egg in each cell, the lava will then eat the egg or young larva…
Tim Melling – Hawk Owl
This is a Hawk Owl landing in a tree top in Sweden that I took in May this year. They occur at low density in the boreal forest zone right across Europe, Siberia and North America. I think that they are the only owl that is most active during the daytime. Other daytime owls are…
National Parks in British Wildlife
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My column, Naturally Opinionated, in the August British Wildlife is about National Parks. It should drop through your letterboxes around 18 August – subscribe here. More on this subject when the magazine is out.
Quatorze et quinze juillet?
Ralph Underhill is on holiday. It’s a good job that none of us is the least bit interested in football isn’t it? When France win tomorrow maybe that nice M. Macron will announce that the quinze juillet will forever more be fused with the quatorze juillet to form a deux-jours holiday. At least we (some…