Tag: Tim Melling

Tim writes: the Large Heath is Britain’s most variable butterfly.  So much so that when it was first discovered in Britain it was named as three different species.  They are quite a rare northern butterfly inhabiting peat bogs where their caterpillars feed on Cotton-grasses.  This was taken early morning at Winmarleigh Moss in Lancashire where…

Tim writes: the Ivory Gull is inextricably linked to the ecology of the Polar Bear.  The majority of Ivory Gulls remain in the high Arctic throughout the year, even in deep winter when there is 24 hour darkness.  They follow Polar Bears around waiting for them to make a seal kill, then they scavenge the…

Tim writes:  These King Penguins were photographed just above the largest nesting colony on the planet with hundreds of thousands of nesting pairs.  This was on the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia at Saint Andrews Bay.  King Penguins are the only birds I have ever encountered that treat humans as if they are birds. …