Living alongside foxes (& badgers)
Sitting here in a hotel room near Gatwick with the roar of jet engines passing overhead every few minutes is not exactly out there 'in the field' but I've just spent two days with a man who has discovered a great deal about foxes no more than 50m from his back door in a leafy Kent village. Mike Towler is a man on a mission. He is fascinated by fox behaviour and spends an enormous amount of his time in their company. He also cares for injured foxes and rehabilitates orphaned cubs, releasing them back into the wild from his 9 acre garden.
On a Mission to Lithuania
My first mission for the greatest ever pan-European photographic project - The Wild Wonders of Europe is to the Baltic state of Lithuania, a country under Russian rule until 1990 and one of the richest for birdlife in eastern Europe. My main subject for this mission is the white stork, the national bird of Lithuania which can be found throughout the country with around 16,000 breeding pairs, most of them it seems on telegraph poles! Not ideal for photography so I'm on the look out for one on an attractive building. Four days of searching and only pole-nesters but at least I find a couple of feeding storks in damp flower meadows so a few shots in the can.
