(Post 2 of 4) Timon helps take care of a dog team at the public dog yard in Longyearbyen. They had a work party today, so Eric and I helped clear up the garbage and check the fences. Dozens of dogs share two-storey fenced accommodation and their handlers come to clean, feed, run and love…
(Post 3 of 4) Spring time in the dog yard. Want a ride in the cart? It’s work before play. Jenny picks up an impressive amount of dog poo. And then meets Miriam. Check out the next post.
(Post 4 of 4) Miriam gives the dogs some exercise pulling a fancy new dune-buggy dog cart. She’s working on a PhD in marine biology; she studies the tiny animals that live in sea ice. Out on the track, she calls after the dogs – go! stop! left! right! At one point, they leave the…
Alan Fawcett (right) is Mr. Golden Eagle Watch in North Uist, Outer Hebrides. He arrives each spring, finds the nest and spends four months watching, every day, until the chicks fledge. He’s been coming for eight years. Alan’s stake out was three weeks old by the time I met him, and he’d already welcomed 900…
Which came first, the pink wall or the pink flamingo?