Tim writes: 2017 has seen a massive influx of Hawfinches into Britain and some have turned up in places that they don’t usually occur, including this one near Barnsley. It was feeding on the seeds of Field Maple. Hawfinches are Britain’s largest breeding finch, but they are also probably our most elusive. They spend…
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Tim Melling – Grizzly Bear
Tim writes: every autumn Grizzly Bears move down to the rivers to feed on spawning salmon, which enables them to put on enough fat to sustain them through hibernation. This is a huge battle-scarred male with a collapsed ear that scattered all the smaller bears when he arrived on the scene. This was taken at…
Tim Melling – the rare and beautiful Netted Carpet Moth
Tim writes: As a teenager I remember reading E B Ford’s New Naturalists book on Moths, where this species was on a plate labelled “Moths with Restricted Distributions” that showed fifteen of Britain’s rarest moths. The first moth in this plate was the beautiful Netted Carpet from Windermere. Since that day it is a species…