I’ve just taken delivery of 7 of the 14 adventure books by Willard Price, courtesy of the 2nd hand booksellers on http://www.abebooks.co.uk.

I remember reading the Adventure Series of books at the age of about 10, and given my love of wildlife, these were an instant hit.

On opening the package yesterday, I realised that I even recognised most of the covers from the first time I read the se books all that time ago..

I have just started reading South Seas Adventure, and have the 6 books I am missing (I already had one of the books at my parents) on order.

The Adventure Series feature the teenage animal hunters Hal and Roger Hunt, and follow the adventures they have whilst travelling the world in search of rare and dangerous animals for their fathers wildlife collections.

Although highly fantastical, these books really developed my interest in all kinds of wild animals, and along with the books by Gerald Durrell developed my fascination with wildlife into what it is today.

Since I had my back operated on last Wednesday, I’ve been pottering around my parents rather large garden, but decided that I’d go out for a proper walk this morning.

I took my camera (regrettably with only the standard 17-70mm zoom) with me, and walked for about 2.5 miles, which isn’t much really, but is a bit more than the few hundred yards I’ve been doing around the garden.

Almost as soon as I stepped off the road, I regretted not taking my large zoom lens, as I had great views of a Roe Deer and a Sparrowhawk, then a little later, I had excellent opportunities to take some good shots of a female scorpion fly and some large red damselflies (if only I’d taken the Macro lens).

I did take a couple of close’ish shots, but they’re nowhere near as good as they would have been with the macro lens. That’ll teach me to take the macro lens off the camera :o).

Anyway, I’ve converted the images and used RoboGeo to put them on a Google Map and Google Earth.