Spindlelegs

Ark and myself travelled to Allerthorpe Common, near York to try to get a photograph of Britains only poisonous snake, the Adder. Moments after arriving on the common propper we caught sight of a large female Adder, as it vanished from view into a patch of dense vegitation. Following this brief view we spent a futher hour searching the common, without [...]

We decided not to make the trek to south-western Scotland to try to see the White-tailed Plover that had been showing for the pervious few days, and instead made a visit to the Wykeham Forest Raptor Watchpoint, near Scarborough. The day started off cold and misty, not good weather at all for watching birds of prey. However a nice [...]

GH and myself made a dusk visit to Howell Wood in search of Woodcock. We saw between two and five of these mainly nocturnal wading birds performing their “rodding” display flights low over the tree tops. Our enjoyment of this spectacle was somewhat spoiled however, by what felt like several million tiny biting midges all of which appeared to agree that [...]