Standing up for Nature
This is another species I have wanted to see since watching the BBC series “Flight of the Condor” way back in 1982. Their size is absolutely amazing with a 3m wingspan (10 feet 10 inches is the biggest recorded), yet they don’t look that big in flight against the backdrop of the Andes. In springtime…
Ocelots are elusive and highly sought-after forest cats from Central and South America. I photographed this one in the Pantanal in Brazil after dark. I took it without flash, but by torchlight at a very high ISO (51,200). It was occasionally coming for small fish that had been left out though it was not guaranteed. …
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…