Photo Credit: Kirsty Grant The weekend just gone was international bat weekend; 28th and 29th August 2016. Set up by the Bat Conservation Trust the aim of the weekend was to encourage thousands of people to...
Wild Capital is delighted to welcome blogger Kirsty Grant. We’re sure you will enjoy her first article on urban foxes. One of Britain’s largest carnivores is a misunderstood creature, with a bad reputation and...
We enjoyed a lovely walk at The Highams Park and Epping Forest today. The sun was shining, birds were singing and we discovered a cluster of Tawny Mining Bees nest holes in the ground....
Yesterday in Richmond Park we had some fantastic view of both a male and a female Kestrel. The male was hovering in the air to hunt, whilst the female from hunting from a low...
Today at RSPB Rainham Marshes we had some fantastic views of a Water Rail, normally a shy sulking bird. We watched as it stalked through the reeds to the waters edge, extended its neck in...
There has recently been an emergence of mayflies. These little winged insects aren’t just restricted to the month of May; one species or another can be on the wing throughout the summer. Mayflies are...
Great indeed! What a big beauty of a water snail. Like me, you may well have come across smaller Ramshorns Snails in freshwater sites. But this species, the mighty Great Ramshorn Snail (Planorbaruis corneus) is...
As National Insect Week comes to an end, let us celebrate the wild wonder that is London’s Stag Beetle. All pictures and video footage were taken in London:
I spotted this Treecreeper in Hyde Park the other day. Treecreepers have always been in my top five birds; I love to watch their secretive tree trunk acrobatics. They travel from the bottom of...
River surveying in the Thames today we found several mayfly nymphs; aquatic juvenile mayflies equipped with gills for underwater living. Mayflies spend most of their lives in this form. The adult life of a...
