SantaTrackerHD

Just a quick plug for Santa Tracker HD one of Onteca's flagship Apps. For this year's version I was asked to do a flashy 3d globe which Santa zips around at several million miles an hour delivering presents.

The app also has sightings, and advent calendar, an entertaining blog written by Santa himself, and lots more. You can get it for iPhone/iPad from the App Store. Search for Onteca + Santa and you should find it no problem.

Tree Trim

Wildlife Wednesdays #24

Woodsie Foxgloves

Arran

Scenic Sundays #25

The Isle of Arran dominates the skyline from the sleepy hamlet of Millhouse.

Power

Scenic Sundays #24

One Mushroom Post

Fencepost of the Week #33

Another one from this year's mushroom season.

Badgers

Wildlife Wednesdays #23

So... what kind of wildlife has Brighton got going for it? Top of my list has to be badgers - there is a healthy badger population in the surrounding countryside and in the city itself. Being shy and mostly nocturnal, I might not get any good photo opportunities, so here's a picture instead.

Badger footprints are one of the most distinctive animal tracks in the UK - look for the broad heel pad, with four toes in front and one a little to the side - almost like a pudgy human hand - and the big claw points some distance ahead of each toe.

There are plenty more kinds of wildlife that I am looking forward to encountering now that I'm down here - dormice and crayfish and Lewes's burgeoning marsh frog population, and hopefully grass snakes.