Great eared nightjar

Ghostly white forms drifted like white handkerchiefs on the brisk night breeze, dipping, rising, flapping, turning and tumbling over an inky black ocean. My small sailing boat rocked gently on the wav

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there’s something about seeing a bat that makes you shout “bat!” It’s the only way to greet one – on summer nights around the campfire, waiting for the first to start flitting around the treetops, or

Peek over the parapet of a bridge just as daylight bleeds into dusk, gazing down through the clear layers of a shallow river or chalk stream, and you may glimpse the shadowy, serpentine form of an eel