Mating Hare behaviour: 6 male vs 1 female

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With fur and limbs flying everywhere, six male hare fight each other and chase just a single female before finally, exhausted, she stops long enough for the males to attempt to mate with her – whilst at all times being constantly attacked by the remaining males! Sometimes the animal kingdom can be a harsh place. [...]

On Location: A week on Texel, Holland

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I should have known this trip wouldn’t be the best as soon as I was asked to pay for overweight luggage at Heathrow Airport! And I would have been right. Five days of fog, one day of rain with grey skies and one, just one afternoon of sun and good light. Not the weather we [...]

Peregrine Falcon in the rain, in the wild

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Sometimes, you just get lucky! After spending a week on the island of Texel, Holland, in the fog and rain both myself and friend, fellow photographer Rene De Heer had all but given up hope of getting anything out of the ordinary. We had even at one point considered coming home early and cancelling the [...]