Blog posts by year and monthSeptember 2008
Posts (4)
Rubbish wildlife and ravenous ravens
It's been an unusual week, to say the least. Saturday saw me on a rubbish dump waiting for seagulls to land. We were making a radio programme about seagulls that inhabit rubbish tips and were with some scientists who were using cannon netting in order to capture and ring them.
A sting in the tale
This week, I hated wildlife. I jumped up and down and shouted like a loon directly at an animal,,,, but in my defence, it had just stung me. Picture by Ian Francis.
The effects of flooding
There has been an extraordinary amount of rainfall in parts of the country which has resulted in rivers bursting their banks and many places being flooded.
The birds, the birds!
I woke up bleary-eyed the other day to be met with what seemed like hundreds of birds on my house. It was a scene straight out of the famous Hitchcock film - The Birds. They were in fact a flock of house martins that must have contained 50 or more individuals.
