Plants and Fungi

For all the years that I’ve been watching wildlife, I’ve deliberately paid little attention to all the other forms of life out there. My focus has always been squarely in the animal kingdom. That’s not to say I’ve been walking … Read more

Trip report from the future

I didn’t expect to be writing this trip report exactly two weeks before I’d even left the country, but here we are. Foreign Office advice and airlines pulling out of flying to my destination mean that my next trip isn’t … Read more

Taxonomic diagrams

I’ve been trying to work out a way to automatically generate taxonomic species diagrams from my species list. I’ve nearly achieved it, subject to one annoying problem. It’s close enough though, so I’ve put it live anyway. The diagrams can … Read more

Warblers and Goatsuckers

With only a couple of months to go until the Nightjars return and the work begins again on surveying them, I’ve been going through some photos from last season. Most of my Nightjar photos come from close to home in … Read more

Species List filters

The species list has been further improved to accommodate the inclusion of kingdoms other than the previous singular ‘animalia’ kingdom. Previously there were two methods of filtering by country. The first was using a drop-down menu, which has now been … Read more

Species list – kingdoms

After many years of faithfully adding new species onto my list, I’ve finally decided to start looking beyond the single animalia domain, and including species from other domains. Animalia will continue to be my main focus (by a long way), … Read more

Painted Wolves & Bustards

Two new images from South Africa today. The Black-bellied Bustard was found in central Kruger. It was the breeding season while I was there but I didn’t get to see any displaying birds. I spend a lot of time each … Read more

Accessibility tools

After receiving feedback on another website I manage that one or two people were having trouble reading the site due to font size and (lack of) contrast, I implemented some options to allow people to alter the text size, view … Read more

Changes to mobile

Prior to today, all the news pages displayed a sliding panel which showed the five most recent articles within the respective news category/categories. I’ve reduced this to just the single most recent post to lessen repetition and also to remove … Read more

1000!!!

This photo is the 1000th addition to the gallery. I chose a species that is very special to me, and one that I went to great lengths to see. You can read the full account of the experience by clicking … Read more

Monkeys, Woodpeckers and Hawkers

Three new additions to the wildlife gallery – The Central American Squirrel Monkey was on the edge of Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica, right near the coast. This species is found only there and western Panama. I found the … Read more