En la última visita que hicimos a Ituzaingó con willy durante las vacaciones de invierno aprovechando una jornada libre un rato por la mañana tuvimos la oportunidad de acercarnos bastante a este MartÃn pescador mediano que atentamente miraba el agua desde un mojón del costado de la ruta. Tan atento estaba ante la aparición de […]
Category: Wildlife
White-eyed Gulls – Jizan Fish Market
Whilst in Jizan we stopped at the fish market where we knew from past experience that photography was possible. The fish market is an excellent place to see both Sooty and White-eyed Gulls with plenty of birds normally resting on the roofs and feeding on scraps on the ground. It is best to get to […]
Bearded giants gliding the barrier of spears
This is the first post from my trip to Giant’s Castle in the uKhahlamba Drakensberg park in mid-July. Apart from the breath-taking beauty, a key attraction at Giant’s Castle was its vulture hide. The uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park has Africa’s highest mountain range south of Kilimanjaro. It presents a formidable horizon of massive basalt cliffs in […]
Marl Bed Flats, 7/26/2017
This morning I decided to head out to Marl Bed Flats to see what birds and bugs I might find. I was pleased to see that the flats aren’t nearly as dry as they were the last time I visited. There was standing water near the slough, and that was encouraging to me. I didn’t […]
New born Elephant calf in Amboseli National Park
One evening as we were about to exit the Amboseli National Park to return to our lodge, we noticed an African Elephant with a calf by the side of the road. As we came closer to it to get a couple of pictures, we noticed that the calf was very young. Our guide pointed out […]
Tacuarita Azul (Masked Gnatcatcher) Polioptila dumicola
Hoy cerca del mediodÃa unos minutos antes de que el almuerzo esté listo las escuché cantando en el árbol del patio del vecino, acomodé mi sillón de espaldas al sol y luego de pocos minutos de espera las dos tacuaritas azules se cambiaron de árbol y se pasaron a mi limonero. Estas son algunas fotos […]
White-eared Bulbul – Jubail
Whilst birding Jubail in July I found a White-eared Bulbul a species not commonly seen there although Phil Roberts saw one in early June. The birds in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia appear to be of the subspecies mesopotamia found in Iraq and Kuwait as they have very yellow eye rings and a bigger […]
Skomer Island – 14th July
Sarah, Tobias and I last visited Skomer on 6th July 2014 and so after a couple of years with no visit we were looking forward to getting back and Tobias was very excited about seeing Puffin. So after a good drive to Pembrokeshire on Thursday afternoon we had time for a short stop at Laugharne […]