Whilst in the southwest of the Kingdom in April, Phil Roberts and I came across a group of eight mainly second calendar year Steppe Eagles. The birds appeared to be migrating along the escarpment edge. It is diffuclt to know if these birds were wintering birds from the region moving north or birds from Africa […]
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Night Heron Dingle Park
On the way up north on Wednesday for a work thing I stopped off in Shrewsbury to look for the Night Heron that’s spent a couple of weeks there. I Parked up at the entrance to Dingle Park paid the £3 for 2 hours parking and followed the signs for the Quarry and within seconds […]
Blaze-winged Parakeet, Chiripepé de ala anaranjada (Pyrrhura devillei)
Mucho tiempo llevo tratando de identificar estas fotografÃas que voy a mostrar en esta entrada, resulta ser que por la zona que estuvo Luis en el Pantanal frecuentan las 3 especies de Psittacidos (loros) del género Pyrrhura, el Chiripepé cabeza parda, el Chiripepé cabeza verde, y este Chiripepé o Cotorra de Deville. No dispongo de […]
Blandford’s Lark in the Talea’a Valley – Abha
The Talea’a Valley near Abha is in the Asir mountains in southwest Saudi Arabia and is a large upland wadi with stony ground and acacia trees growing in the bottom. The valley is hot and dry and any area of water attracts a steady stream of birds in the summer coming down to drink so […]
Tacuarita Azul (Masked Gnatcatcher) Polioptila dumicola
Como desde el año 2012 no publico fotografÃas de la Tacuarita azul en el blog comparto hoy con ustedes estas imágenes que pude obtener en el Arroyo Itá el Viernes 5 de Mayo en horas de la mañana, interesante jornada en la que pudimos registrar tres especies nuevas para esta reserva. […]
Day trip to Titchwell
We set off early this morning arriving at Choseley Barns at 7.30am where I scoped the Dotterel in the rain without too much help from the Jims who already had the tick from a recent twitch in Herts. Once I found the birds their mood changed and they jumped out to enjoy distant views along […]
Purple Herons – Germany
Since moving back to southern Germany I’ve been keen to head up to my ‘local’ nature reserve and catch up with the Purple Heron colony there as well as many other bird species and other wildlife. Purple Herons are particularly striking birds, especially during the breeding season. Here’s some facts and other information about them. […]
Rosefinch in apple blossom
Well tomorrow (today) didn’t bring too much for me or anyone else locally. I started early at Huk to see if there was anything on the sea which there wasn’t and then against my better judgement went to look for the King Eider which of course I couldn’t find. After that it was Maridalen where […]