Although most of the King Penguins, Aptenodytes patagonicus, on the Falkland Islands are found in the breeding colony at Volunteer Point, East Falkland, single birds

A solitary Macaroni Penguin, Eudyptes chrysolophus, standing in a Southern Rockhopper Penguin colony on Sea Lion Island, in the Falkland Islands. Macaroni Penguins mostly breed

I was lucky enough to spend two weeks on the Falkland Islands in late November – early December 2022. I visited four islands, plus the

Sepia-toned photograph of two men and two oxen ploughing a paddy in central Madagascar.

Thinking pods, contemplation areas for Members of the Scottish Parliament.

A Blue Tit, Cyanistes caeruleus, perched on a twig with hawthorn berries.

African Hoopoe feeding chick in Amboseli National Park, Kenya.

Close up of a friendly Gray / Grey Whale in Laguna San Ignacio, Baja California, Mexico.

A beautiful male Eurasian Bullfinch in winter, perched on a Fuchsia shrub in my front garden.

A few Common Guillemots / Murres from the Breeding colony on the Farne Islands off Northumbria.

A large Bull African Elephant, in musth, mock-charging: KrugerNP, South Africa.

Two Olive Baboons, copulating in a lugga in Buffalo Springs National Reserve, part of the Samburu complex of reserves in northern Kenya.