These birds circle the skies around my house regularly, making their distinctive pit-kwee cries. I’ve wanted to get a decent picture for a while, but, sadly, this is the best …

This stripy lady, known as Oval St Andrew’s Cross Spider (Argiope aemula, or ナガマルコガネグモ in Japanese), made a home in my yet-to-flower bougainvillea. She did well netting endlessly sacrificial grasshoppers …

It didn’t take much skill to spot this guy outside my front door on an early February morning, but I was inevitably quite taken back when he or she caught …

This chap literally fell from a tree. I was in the garden when he, maybe she (and it feels too cold to say ‘it’), suddenly dropped on the ground a …