August 2011 Archives
It’s a Barn Owl Family
Great news everyone: there are little barn owl hatchlings squeaking and hissing from the nest box! Two weeks ago I wondered out loud whether our male had found a new mate. It’s unusually late to start a nest for barn owls in this region. Even second clutches (meaning that the owls start another nest in [...]
The Fright of the Bell Towers
We share the house here with many animals. I think that’s a nice thing, but we have little say in it anyway. Bats, garden dormice and beech martens are frequent occupants, to name just a few (and of course there’s the wood mouse that lives in the kitchen), but my favorite has always been the [...]
A Night in the Forest
As you may know (if you follow me on Twitter or Facebook), I’m in Picardie, France, again after a couple of days in the Netherlands for the opening of my exhibit. I’m visiting my parents. Two local friends, Jacques and Stephane, who have incredible knowledge of the local wildlife, took us to a badger sett [...]
Fire Salamander – Take Two
When I was a little kid I had a toy fire salamander. It seemed like the coolest creature ever to walk the earth with its bright colors. I never imagined I’d just stumble upon it on the forest floor in France one day… Last time I went looking for fire salamanders in the middle of [...]
An Exhibit is Made
I dropped by the museum on Friday to deliver my photos for the exhibit. It is huge! The exhibit marks the museum’s fifteen years of existence and every past exhibitor has been invited to contribute, so there are well over a hundred participating artists — the biggest exhibit the museum has seen to date. With [...]
I’m outta here…
…that’s what this Eurasian nuthatch (Sitta europaea) must have thought at the sound of my camera’s mirror moving up. It’s quite remarkable how they’re already on their way out by the time my shutter opens, around 70 milliseconds! Nuthatches are pretty cool birds anyway. Fittingly called ‘boomklever‘ in Dutch, which translates to something like ‘tree [...]
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