Glis glis

Recently, Tom and I were discussing swan species we’d seen, and I dug out some photos of a pair of swans I’d seen in Solihull in January 2006. I realised I hadn’t ever identified them, so with help from Tom and nice people on Flickr I found out. It seems that they were hybrids – [...]

Concern over seal threat to fish “Almost half of the fish passing under a Teesside bridge are being eaten by seals, a pilot study has found.” That sounds quite worrying… until you read: “The 21-day survey was carried out by tagging the progress of 18 fish.” … Wow, what a large and representative sample size [...]