We are sad to say that Shefali will be leaving The Ultimate Travel Company at the end of this month. Since taking over the Wild Insights account at the end of 2022 Shefali has demonstrated her very...
The aptly-named Resplendent Quetzal is just one of an amazing plethora of species to be found in Costa
As the nesting season and bird monitoring draws to a close this season we are starting to...
After five years of looking after the Wild Insights business Louisa Thompson has moved within the Ultimate Travel Company to join the tailor-made team, specialising in Australia and New Zealand....
I am sorry for the lack of news items recently - it has been an extraorinarily busy season with field work this year including bird surveys
across huge areas of upland and, as usual, the monitoring...
At last with everything settling down again we can look forward to returning to our favourite parts of the world and they don't get much better than Namibia. This pleasingly unpopulated country...
If you received our Christmas email you'll know that we had decided against producing a calendar for 2022 due to the continued uncertainty caused by the pandemic. The latest variant has again...
The
announcements last week once again cast a cloud of uncertainty over our
plans. We have been here before and until we have further clarity
regarding the significance of the new variant it...
Following many months of uncertainty and rescheduling we were unsure whether it would be possible to produce a 2021 calendar. However, following the great news about the first vaccine...
Some compensation for everything coming to a sudden halt this year has been the opportunity to address an accumulating list of jobs and projects. One of these was the building of a bridge over the...
With everything going on around us wouldn't it be nice to excape for a few days and enjoy the delights of Higham Hall? The good news is that after taking all the necessary precautions to ensure...
The season is drawing to a close with young Hen Harriers now mostly fledged. The unremitting requirement for food has kept the adults busy for weeks, effectively providing the protein...
ROBIN KHAN 1933 -
2020
After a short illness, we said
goodbye to a man who has figured more prominently in my life than anyone could
imagine.
I met Robin Khan in 1971, then a...
This time of year sees me spending endless hours following up the
fortunes, and misfortunes of Hen Harriers, arguably one of the most
elegant of all our raptor species. My first...
Typically, damselflies are active around our pond before the dragonflies emerge or arrive. One of the first and most numerous is the Large Red Damselfly. The second image shows one of the most...
After the last two weeks of increasing claustrophobia, jam-packed in a dome of moss with 5 others (at least) and with a limited view from the corner woodwork of our garden room here is the result...
Wrens have chosen to nest in various places this year including a perfect space at the corner of our garden room. Clearly the brood is substantial and there is a corresponding amount of food going...
We have just completed our first nest box inspection in the wood and there is a substantial % occupancy this year - mostly Blue and Great Tits but two Wrens, one Coal Tit and four boxes with Pied...
Raptor monitoring work is the perfect opportunity to socially isolate, not a human to be seen all day. However, it was great to come across good numbers of Cuckoos all voicing their presence....
A walk in our wood today produced plenty of springtime action, including one of the quintessential sounds of hilly woodland on the Welsh border - the shivering trill of the Wood Warbler. When they...
There are inevitable compensations to the current situation. For the first time in many years we are able to keep a daily log of what is happening around our patch and in the last few weeks, bird...
One of the unexpected bonuses of the current situation is the daily check of the wood where we have fifty nest-boxes - high quality design made by good friend and regular Wild Insights travelling...
One of the most ingenious and extraordinary nest-builders has to be the Long-tailed Tit. We have been watching a pair in the garden as they have painstakingly collected pieces of lichen, interwoven...
While all the prevailing news remains depressing, wildlife continues to
operate, oblivious to the events which are affecting so many people's
lives. The lanes are alive with flowers and...
In the midst of all this depressing news I watched this Song Thrush staking out his territory this morning, oblivious to it all and reminding us that good things are happening at this great time of...
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