Species photographed on my local patch in Germany included: Red Kite, Black Kite, Black-necked Grebe, Greylag Geese, Long-tailed Tits nest building, two Long-tailed Tits completing their new nest, Coal Tit, Marsh Harrier, Peregrine Falcon and Goshawk. Black-necked Grebes
Category: Wildlife
A Rarity : The Black Wheatear
I was thankful for the opportunity to photograph this rare species and moreover both sexes, but what a pity to speak about it in the past tense in France: the last pair was seen in the Pyrenees in 1996. The 2 birds are black (female dark brown) and the tail has a white strip. It […]
Maitland Community Park, 4/25/2017
On April 25, I returned to Maitland Community Park. One of my friends had seen a male Blackburnian Warbler there the day before. I did not find that bird, but I did see 8 species of warblers, which is pretty good for this Spring. There were a couple species that let me get fairly decent […]
A Lost Opportunity At Hammonasset
For a handful of days after mid April 2017 Hammonasset Beach State Park was host to a rare species of bird for its time and place. The Killdeer above (image 1) was photographed at Hammonasset Beach State Park in April 2017. A conscientious effort on my part to avoid bad […]
Halcón plomizo (Aplomado falcon) Falco femoralis
De la última oportunidad que visitamos el Portal Cambyretá del Parque Nacional Iberá me volvà a Posadas con estas lindas fotografÃas de dos de estos bonitos halcones que recibÃan los primeros rayos del sol perchando en los postes del costado del camino. Cambyretá es uno de los lugares que mas me gustan para fotografiar aves […]
African Grey Hornbill at the bottom of the Raydah Escarpment – Abha
Whilst birding the bottom of the Raydah Escarpment in late March I saw up to ten African Grey Hornbills Tockus nasutus. This is a very high number as normally only one or two birds are seen. All birds appeared to be in pairs with loud calling being seen and heard from some birds on a […]
Eurasian wryneck
This migratory bird, first recorded in 1585, spends the winter in tropical Africa and nests in hollow trees or in walls, feeds on ants and their larvae but also on different insects and berries. One of the smallest Picidae species it is about 17cm (6.7in) in length. When excited it uses its neck in snake-wise […]
Whitethroat
A couple more from Sundays trip to Suffolk