Author: Altea

October is a busy time of year, especially for migratory birds…and this heron is no exception! Celebrating World Migratory Bird Day today, I find myself wondering how birds feel, finally reaching their winter grounds after their long fall journeys. So much has happened for me in the past months, that it feels like a good…

Life in between covid tides is full of unexpected…and here I am on the Danish coast, joining a crew of researchers and interns studying new gillnets prototypes to reduce harbor porpoise bycatch! Harbor porpoises are an endemic species along the coasts of Europe, and the east Baltic Sea population of these animals is under threat;…

After another long absence, I write once again from London UK. Here are some notes from the latest trip: Traveling again is a bit of a challenge, something like falling in love once more after suffering in a past relationship. I realized though, how thoughtless the choice was -or better, how I never felt like…

After a long silence, it feels tingly to place words together again in this small corner of the net. The past months are demanding me just one thing, to go ahead and let the past be past, buried in the earth so that -sooner or later- it will be back in the wind and sun…