Note – 2026-06-22 06:28
I was surprised by the amount of snow still remaining in the Pyrenees. It's going fast though and leaving behind some incredible snow tunnels
Tag: nature
Note – 2025-11-27 13:51
The guardians at the refuge showed us a recent video of the resident Puma at the campsite. It was on a trunk of a fallen tree close to where we had just camped. The Puma didn't seem at all disturbed b...
Note – 2025-11-14 17:03
Came across this happy chappy yesterday when slightly away from the main trail.Word balloon time? What's he thinking? 🤣
Note – 2025-11-01 12:09
I felt so enthused by my journey yesterday afternoon I decided to write about it. The Finest Journey of All (Or, How We Stopped Being Grumpy Gits) If you’ve been following this TravelLog, you’d be for...
Note – 2025-10-10 07:50
Hard photographing birds in flight isn't it? Especially for a landscape photographer who's subject is pretty much static. Thing is with birds, the little blighters just won't stay still, will they? He...
Note – 2025-09-09 12:27
Quiet serene river waters reflect the surrounding vegetation and trees. Patches of sunlight filter through The banks of the Rio Guadalfeo during our dog walk today. This river quietly makes it's way t...
Note – 2025-08-07 05:44
So, I was climbing up this steep rock slab a few days ago and out of a small cave in the rock above me appeared this Iberian Ibex (Cabra Montes). They are usually quite timid but this one stood his gr...
Note – 2025-05-12 15:36
400km round trip taking my mate back to Malaga airport but managed to visit a few nature reserves along the way ... Fuente de Piedra (Flamingos ✅, Dark Spreading Dragonfly ✅) and El Torcal (Griffon Vu...
Note – 2024-02-14 16:56
Day 1 we arrive at the place where we hope to see the rarest cat in the world, the Iberian Lynx. Immediately Mick spots a lynx. We pour excitedly out of the car, grabbing binoculars & cameras. 1st att...
Note – 2023-12-22 15:35
A photographer's beautiful timelapse showing the onset of winter. It took him five years to shoot. Amazing! https://vimeo.com/896231378
Note – 2023-06-30 06:51
Zamárraga, erigeron de Sierra Nevada (Erigeron frigidus) We found this at 3460m on Mulhacen in Spain's Sierra Nevada mountain range. Endemic and critically endangered species. Lives on poorly develope...
Note – 2023-05-20 11:42
Came across this wonderful old tree in the gorge below Moclin last week. I'm not good enough on tree ID to know what type it is, but I just love the complicated way the vines interlink and become at o...
Note – 2023-05-11 07:24
Came across some Pine Tree Honeydew whilst walking in the forests of the Sierra Nevada last week. Honeydew is a sugary liquid that some small insects secrete as they feed on the sap of certain trees,...
Note – 2023-04-03 08:39
And it's so nice to see the irrigation channels running full blast this morning. The dogs loved it!
Note – 2023-03-17 01:43
Sad news that Tamara, a lynx released at the beginning of March in the Sierra Arana north of Granada, was found run over. It is one of 3 lynxes that were reintroduced on March 3. This is the third lyn...
Note – 2023-01-16 12:15
I just love the smell of moody olive groves in the morning! Especially those cold and fresh winter mornings when the sun is low in the sky and the shadows are long