Wild boar, coypu, lizards and raptors in Tuscany
Sometimes you don’t have to go looking for exciting wildlife, it can jump out at you when least expected as I found out on a recent trip to Italy. I was with two friends jogging…
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Learning about otters, water voles and other riverside mammals
“I promise you, they are not remote controlled,” said our ecstatic tutor, Darren Tansley, as we spent a couple of hours with water voles – one of Britain’s rarest creatures – scampering along the river…
Photographer ruffles peers’ feathers
SERIOUS wildlife photographers had every right to claim fowl-play after a newcomer from Suffolk scooped top prize at a star-studded London awards night. Lee Acaster, pronounced the overall winner of the British Wildlife Photography Awards…
Lifting the lid on laser eye surgery
I had always taken pride in my eagle-eyed vision and being first to spot wildlife in the field. So, when it began to deteriorate I muddled through with glasses and contact lenses, but it wasn’t the…