Travel Stories

Last week I got to spend some time in the French Jura. A region I had been keen on visiting for a long time. Mostly because I saw the films by Agnes George, who is a friend of my good friend Jean-Marie. Here is an example of what she filmed... CLICK HERE I never forgot these …

For most people, mice are rarely seen well. This also goes for house mice, which are usually observed as a brown lightning, flashing away in your garage.

This blog post will explain how the three of us found the Holy grail of European mammal watching, the Eurasian lynx, just last week on the border between Poland and Ukraine.

Several weeks ago, I had the chance to visit a friend in the southern part of Belgium, who has a garden. Not any garden, a huge and wild one, with nest boxes. Nest boxes hanging 50cm from the ground. And placed for one reason only: hazel dormice. The hazel dormouse Muscardinus …

In the past few weeks, PJ and I decided to step up the pace and go for nightwork. The plan was to photograph bats in France. We knew a good but very small cave where brandt's bats Myotis brandtii swarm. Photographing bats is teamwork: lots of driving, little sleep, lots and lots …