Saturday, 26 February 2022

The ‘Alligator Ladies’ of Hammersmith and Chertsey. Who were they and what became of them?

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This article arises from the previous one on the 1952 film, Strange Cargo . It concerns two women who were the subject of articles in the ma...
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Thursday, 24 February 2022

STRANGE CARGO, the 1952 film: 'Riding the Alligator' and' Hatching the Tortoise'...and its return to the Densham family

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This story has two threads and is in two parts. The first thread is the poignant rediscovery—with echos down to the present day—of a film re...
Thursday, 17 February 2022

Calotes versicolor: the lizard with many names

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The agamid lizard Calotes versicolor is widespread in much of southern Asia. Each country seems to have given it a different common name. W...
Friday, 11 February 2022

Black-faced Spoonbill in Hong Kong on New Year’s Day

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These photographs were taken on 1 January by AJP in Hong Kong. Catch the tide right in winter at Tsim Bei Tsui overlooking Deep Bay and the...
Thursday, 10 February 2022

So that’s what they were. My 1958 photograph was of Northern White Rhinos at London Zoo

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Only after I read an excellent new article which arrived in my inbox last night did I realise the significance of a photograph I had taken a...
Tuesday, 8 February 2022

My First Wild Hummingbird: Berkeley, California in 1974 with Dorothy and Frank Pitelka

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To those of us born and bred in northern Europe in the 1940s seeing a hummingbird in the wild seemed an impossible dream. So when I did see ...
Sunday, 6 February 2022

A Blue-tailed Bee-eater

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A few cold, wet days in a west of Scotland winter are sufficient reasons for thinking of warmer climes and their inhabitants.  This Blue-tai...