The Start of the Breeding Season

Apologies for this week’s late posting. Adult Bearded Vulture I woke up in the middle of the night with a Blackbird (Turdus merula) persistently singing from a tree outside. It was five in the morning and sunrise was still three hours away. The noticeably increasing daylength after 21st December soon gets local birds into the […]
Staff Support From a Therapy Cat

I had a quiet therapy cat day at the big hospital, as far as patients went. My first stop was Pediatrics but all the patients were either infants or in isolation. So on our way out, we stopped by the Residents Workroom to see if anyone wanted to spend some time with me. It turned […]