Wild and Wonderful

Hellenic Ornithological Society Information Kiosk on the Pier, Pylos area, Peloponnese While we were staying in the Pylos area of Greec...

The stunning Scarlet Darter, Peloponnese, Greece Close-up We had a slight frost last night, and I found my mind wandering to warmer ...

Seven-Spotted Ladybird I hadn't seen a Ladybird for ages until last week when I saw my first Harlequin . Then on Saturday we were o...

Red Kite My thanks to David , who took this photograph in Carmarthenshire at the weekend. When we first moved to Wales eighteen years ag...

Large Ladybird on the wall of our house Two years ago I was doing a spot of Christmas shopping in November when I was stung by an unsea...

A Grey Squirrel in Swanseas Close-up A Splash of Autumn Colour A 'reflective' foretaste of Winter, when there will be bar...

Turtle Priority I was particularly thrilled to learn that there were breeding Sea Turtles (Caretta Caretta) in our area of the south-w...

Painted Lady at the archaeological site of Messine in Greece, early autumn 2010 Helen of Troy may have had the face that launched 1000 sh...

A number of frogs like this one were enjoying the lily pads ... They were actually pretty camouflaged in the dappled sunlight and shade, ...

I have just joined Wildlife Photography Blogs. You can find the site here . I'm just off to visit some of the other sites now ...

The RSPB Reserve, Clydach, South Wales: a leafy environment, good for nesting birds One of the way-marked RSPB trails I have just r...

A Swallowtail at ancient Messine, near Kalamata, Greece I grew up in East Anglia, where the occasional Swallowtail could be seen on the ...

Here are some of the colourful beetles we saw in the Peloponnese, while we were in Greece ... Shield Bug, probably Graphosoma italicum (o...

We hoped to see a Hoopoe in the Peloponnese, but the 'closest' match was a Crested Lark ... ...on the beach near Homer's ...

We headed off to St Davids (no apostrophe in the name for some reason) in Pembrokeshire, West Wales, last Saturday in the hope that we migh...