Mammals

  A while ago I mentioned that I had found a sounder of Wild Boar (Sus scrofa, Wild Zwijn) in an area close to home where I had not expected them at all. Now, some weeks later, I have found out that there are many more where they came from, and even more at other […]

  As famous Spanish poet Enrique Iglesias beautifully put in words: you can run, you can hide, but you can’t escape my love. Little did I know back then in 2001 that the song, featuring Russian doe Anna Kournikova in the video, was all about the Roe Deer rutting season. Now I do. I mentioned in my previous post that after […]

  Over the past weekend, I did not have a lot of time to go out and to be honest, I have been a bit undecisive about my subject matter lately. Kingfishers, Wild Boar, landscapes, flowers, insects and Roe Deer are all promising possibilities but I cannot seem to make a choice for one of […]

  Somehow, weather is always nicest on Tuesdays. At least, so it seems. Will have to do some serious research on the subject and switch my day off at work from Friday to Tuesday if statistics prove my gut-feeling right. Anyway, since the weather prediction was very good, I decided to once again go to the […]

  Yesterday after work, I went back to the badger sett. Since it is quite a long drive, I have to be sure the evening weather will feature clear skies before I even go there. With gloomy skies, it is way too dark in the small forest edge for photography. With good weather and thus […]

  Almost three years ago, I got into contact with a badger (Meles meles, Das) conservationist. He is as passionate about badgers as I am about my photography, and we soon decided to join forces and go visit a badger sett together. I really wanted to see and photograph badgers and he needed good photographs for […]