Tag Archives: France
A Wise Little Owl
Dear reader, I’m afraid I have neglected you a bit these past weeks. A lot is going on behind the scenes and I will share it with you as soon as I can. Today, I will just relate the story behind the photo above, and I will follow up with two new photos from my [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Underwater with Wild Newts
Search for an underwater photo of a newt, and you will find beautiful images of… newts in aquaria. So, last month I set out to fix this and went on a little expedition to the north of France to make a unique underwater photo series of newts in their natural environment.
Scouting Pools for Newts
After an eight-hour drive I arrived in France this afternoon, where my friend Jeremy Upsal has joined me to get some cool photos of newts. The thing with newt photos is they always seem to be set up in an aquarium or on land, so my mission this weekend is to capture several species underwater [...]
Fire Salamander
I arrived in France today to spend the weekend with Sabine, Vera and Steven. Although this year’s winter was a long one and we all long for the sun, for once we were happy to find that the evening brought us rain. These are perfect conditions for the fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) to come out [...]
Bleaks and Water Lilies in the River Yonne
Welcome to the gloomy yet beautiful world of the juvenile Bleak Alburnus alburnus. Here, a forest of water lily stems makes its way up from the murky riverbed all the way to the surface, and the otherwise bright sunlight is reduced to a distant glow, as it seeps in through a roof of large, floating [...]
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