I just love photographing the beautiful, shy and lightning-quick Malachite Kingfisher. This one was preening in gorgeous early morning light at the Marievale Bird Sanctuary in Nigel, South Africa. Morkel Erasmus
Category: Blogs
Spring in Northants 2 Whose warblers are best?
Spring has moved on. Another week and another few spring arrivals. This week, at Stanwick Lakes, I’ve recorded returning garden warblers, reed warblers, house martins, whitethroat and little ringed plover. I’m still missing cuckoo and yellow wagtail which I would have expected to have seen by now. A year ago I was coming to the […]
After Hours
Still pulling these out from my Anahuac cache from a couple months ago…I’ve got nothing to report right now, so stare instead at the birds, will you please? And while you do that, listen to this sweet tune from Caribou, one of my favorites. It’s called Pelican Narrows, how appropriate. Jill Wussow Photography
Elusive Spring Warbler
Spring migration is underway in New York City; palm warblers, Setophaga palmarum, are among the earliest neo-tropical migrants to pass through on their way to northern breeding areas. This palm warbler barely stopped moving as he flitting from branch to branch picking off insects. He paused just a moment to look at me. My blog. […]
Hallucinations & Memories
She bends others to her will with a splash of red, leaving hallucinations and memories of the wind’s wild side. • Northern Cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis
Birding in British Columbia – Common Eider (Somateria mollissima)
Part 10/10 of my very action packed 6 weeks of traveling around the country in search of birds. In mid-May I set off for my annual road trip. This year I wanted to focus on the interior of British Columbia and some of the fantastic species that breed here. I spent 20 days camping out […]
Man’s attitude to nature
I was in a farm recently with a friend of mine and we were approached by the manager regarding some feral dogs which were becoming a nuisance. There were many sheep in open pens on the farm and it was the lambing season. The manager asked if we could ‘remove’ the animals as they were […]