Maybe it was the cold windy rain on Sunday, or maybe he’s now old enough to recognize a friend, but the normally elusive baby cardinal that’s been coming to my porch for seeds and has always flown away before when I pointed a camera at him, finally sat still for photos. […]
Category: Wildlife
Hounds hot on the heels of poachers in rhino country
“I am ready to die for conserving the rhino,” says Wisdom Makhubele. But the brave young ranger now has another weapon in the war against rhino poaching: the extraordinary nose of tracking hounds. The trained dogs can run poachers to ground far faster than people, sometimes even being set free in packs and followed from […]
POLL: Should ticket sales to cruel wildlife attractions be banned?
TripAdvisor, the popular travel review website, and its ticket sales company, Viator, said Tuesday they no longer will sell tickets to hundreds of tourist attractions that are widely accepted as cruel to wild animals, reversing a policy under which the companies had resisted considering the welfare of animals when promoting trips. The move to stop […]
Kingfishers At Titchwell RSPB Reserve
After many, NO dozens of visits to the Fen hide at Titchwell and enviously looking at the days sightings board only to see that earlier in the day kingfishers had made an appearance. I finally managed to visit on a day when one was allegedly making regular visits, so there was at last a chance of getting some […]
Piojito común (White-crested tyrannulet) Serpophaga subcristata
Los chiquitos también merecen nuestra atención de vez en cuando, siempre nos regalan su presencia en el Itá, y para aquellos que estén enfocados con todos sus sentidos inclusive un pequeño Piojito nos brinda interesantes momentos para registrarlos con nuestras cámaras. Ya lo dijo un sabio chino hace muchos años…. “Cada cosa tiene su belleza, […]
Flava Yellow Wagtail – Jubail
Whilst birding the Jubail area I found a few Yellow Wagtails with one bright example giving very close views. I am assigning this bird to flava but the Yellow Wagtail complex is as it name suggests – complex. The Yellow Wagtail is a common passage migrant with various subspecies occurring but they are much commoner […]
VOTE for the Best Photo of the Week 15 Oct 2016
Welcome to the “Best Photo of the Week” competition showcasing and celebrating the biodiversity of Planet Earth. Voting is easy and lots of fun. First click an image and browse through the slideshow. Then select the three images you like best of all and click the VOTE button at the bottom of the page. […]