Wildlife in the Slow Lane
Iberian Wall Lizard, Podarcis hispanica, is a small wall lizard averaging 50–70 mm in length and is found, strangely enough, throughout the Iberian peninsula and parts of northwestern Africa. There are quite a few down by the beaches, generally scurrying quickly ...
One of my local lakes, Southlake in Woodley, has quite a few dead fish in it at the moment. All the dead fish are Roach, other fish seem to be fine. An environmental officer has been to have a look ...
Suddenly, down by the mouth of the river, the frogs found their voice and there was quite a chorus. They were very difficult to spot and mostly I just heard a 'plop' as one would leap away if I got ...
This little Gekko down by the Rio Chillar seemed none the worse for having lost most of his tail. Cats are generally the cause of such occurrences, and there are a lot of feral cats in Nerja, thousands of them. ...
Lots of people take their children to Maiden Erlegh Lake to feed the ducks and they throw bread in even if the ducks are not very interested so there is often bread floating on the surface by the feeding area. ...
Sunday morning, windy but warm, and a mission to achieve two objectives. See the swallows again near the mouth of the riverbed and experiment with camera settings to get a decent shot of these lovely birds in flight. As luck would ...
The other day I spent a few moments watching the minnows and sticklebacks in the stream that runs through Maiden Erlegh woods. It is not easy to get good photos through the moving water but I took a couple, as ...
Southlake in Woodley is a popular fishing lake and I often see fishermen in their tents with sleeping bags, kettles and huge amounts of equipment - nothing like a few years ago when you could carry everything easily. Now, they ...
The frogs have all left the pond in the woods at Maiden Erlegh and there is a lot of frogspawn on the surface. Not far from the pond is a small weir which runs over some stones and down into ...
There are always little lizards darting in and out of holes in the stone walls and scurrying across sandy areas in Nerja, but they are very shy, as well as quick, so getting a photo is not easy. On this ...
Every March all the frogs come out of the woods at my local nature reserve and mate in the pond and stream before vanishing again, leaving masses of frogspawn in the water. The timing varies depending on the weather but ...
These three were basking near to a very small pool of water in one of the drainage channels along the Frigiliana road in Nerja. Not much water about but the puddle was obviously big enough, and muddy enough for their ...
The Pond Slider, Trachemys scripta elegans, is a semiaquatic turtle belonging to the family Emydidae. It is native only to the southern United States but has become the most popular pet turtle in the United States and also very popular ...
