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Cardiff wildlife enjoys a great resurgence around springtime. Around my Atlantic Wharf neighbourhood the local wildfowl come out of themselves in a variety of ways. Louder squawking from the canal or wharf, at all times of the day and night, signal the urgency of mating season. In fact, it’s not unlike the noise which regularly […]
Be outraged or angry about the murder of Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe, but look out for the wildlife on your own doorstep. It’s a strange contradiction that you can broadly love wildlife without mourning creatures when they die. You casually accept they must die, it’s the way of things. It just isn’t thought about that much because […]
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taking pictures of the same things
10th May 2014
by Mark Hawkins
verdant varest In this age of photography when everybody takes loads of photos and posts them online, there are many almost identical images. We’re all guilty of it, posting exactly the same pictures every year, sometimes every week. The natural rhythms of a calendar year draw us to springtime blooms, green forests, summery beaches, […]
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View to a kill
20th October 2013
by Mark Hawkins
Another travel post from a 2009 trip to South Africa. This one from the safari section. Sabie Sands is a private conservancy with no physical borders to its sanitised and vast neighbour, Kruger Park. It has the bonus of being out of the obvious tourist rat-run, or so we’re told, and walking amongst wild […]