Wildlife Memo Calendar

Wildlife Memo Calendar Overview

Enjoy these absorbing images featuring wild creatures found all over the United Kingdom, some common, others much rarer, all outstandingly photographed in their natural environment in the Wildlife Memo calendar.

One superb photo shows a slavonian grebe, (also called the horned grebe), one of Britain’s most attractive grebes, with gold ear tufts and a trilling call and about the size of a moorhen. These rare diving birds are monogamous and have an elaborate mating ritual. They can be spotted on some remote Scottish lochs and sometimes out at sea feeding on small fish and invertebrates. Another image shows a small tortoiseshell butterfly, a pretty, medium-sized butterfly which is commonly seen in our gardens drinking nectar from buddleia and other flowers. The bristly black and yellow caterpillars feed on nettles. Adult small tortoiseshell butterflies often overwinter in houses and outbuildings. Males can be very territorial, chasing away other butterflies that appear in their space.