I only included two species here, Cory’s Shearwater and Leach’s Storm Petrel photos from a pelagic trip SW of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands, Spain. November 2017. (Map below.) All of the Cory’s photos are of 1st year birds as the adults move south westwards to winter around Brazil. We were in a small boat […]
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White-spotted Pansy – Raydah Escarpment
Whilst birdwatching the bottom valley of the Raydah Escarpment in the Asir Mountains of southwest Saudi Arabia, I came across and photographed a White-spotted Pansy or White-spotted Commodore Precis limnoria. This is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania. The habitat consists of savanna […]
Cigüita de Río – Northern Waterthrush / Parkesia noveboracensis (Gmelin, 1789)
Acá estoy…disfrutando por tercera vez de mi viaje a República Dominicana; porqué la tercera????…. la primera fue cuando lo planificamos en familia, la segunda fue cuando estuvimos allí viviendo unas vacaciones soñadas, y ahora la tercera, cómodamente sentado frente a la computadora editando fotografías y gracias a los recuerdos vuelvo a revivir las experiencias vividas […]
Return to Bowland
At long last the weather had warmed up and Spring was well and truly on the way in fact for a few days it was more like Summer with temperatures soaring into the seventies!! Nature responded and migrants started arriving and spring flowers were blooming. I decided therefore to visit Bowland where I hadn’t been […]
Nightingales in the valley
After a very difficult week at work I needed a little birding therapy this morning without the driving so an early run over to Fishers Green gave me just the wind down I needed. The dawn chorus was in full swing as I arrived with at least three Nightingales singing and waiting for the girls […]
Arañero cara negra (Masked yellowthroat) Geothlypis aequinoctialis
De la mini salida que hicimos con Nico al Arroyo Mártires de la Ciudad de Posadas el pasado 10 de MArzo comparto en esta entrada estas fotografías de una hembra de Arañero cara negra bastante confiada, que se acercó bastante a las cámaras permitiéndonos obtener interesantes resultados fotográficos.
Black-throated Divers back in the Dale
It’s all getting a bit too busy for blogging! The end of April is always my favourite time and at the moment it is the movement of Teal and other dabbling ducks that is occupying me with the never-ending searching for something rare in their midst. Yesterday I was at Nordre Øyeren. At this time […]
Zorzal chalchalero (Creamy-bellied Thrush) Turdus amaurochalinus
Hacía mucho tiempo que no fotografiaba un Zorzal chalchalero, hoy a la mañana en la Reserva del Arroyo Itá mientras aplicaba la necesaria dosis de paciencia pude obtener estos espectaculares retratos de una hembra la cual al no verme se posó a menos de 3 metros de distancia de mi y solo fue cuestión de […]