Nature Notes

Nick Hodges Peter and I carried the ladder. Daniel carried the net. Kjell-ake carried the net. Kjell-ake was important: he carried the briefcase containing the...

NICK HODGES I know a man who spends a lot of time at his local sewage works. No, he doesn't work there: he's an ornithologist...

Nick Hodges There wasn't much wildlife in Delhi - unless you count the cows dicing with death in the traffic-choked streets. Or the domestic pigs...

NICK HODGES Cradle Mountain National Park, in Tasmania, is a favourite place of mine which I visit on a regular basis, and always in winter....

NICK HODGES Like many Australians I have friends who live in this country and who are married to Britons, and British friends who are married...

Something caught my eye through the window of the national park's tea shop. There, only three metres away, in the fork of a tree...

Most people visit Taronga Zoo to see the animals but when I went along recently I found myself absorbed, not in the caged creatures,...

The islands off the west coast of Scotland have always intrigued me - windswept, rain-lashed, distant. Moreover there were things I had to see...

I hate boats. All that salt-spray stickiness and constant motion. It's just a pity that I feel the need to head off into the...

As I approached Fraser's Hill, a former hill station in the Malaysian Highlands, I was greeted by a sign which read: 'Welcome to Little...