Travel Stories

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. Some time ago, PJ and I spent two weekends photographing house mice. He had some extra on offer in his garage, so we caught …

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. The three of us being: PJ -Mister Lova Lova- D'hondt, here photographed whilst testing a camera trap Iwan …

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 …

Last week I did something I had not done in 17 years... A family holiday. There was little room for intense nature photography, since I was under instructions to stay around. For those that don't know, family is important (<a href=\" …