Some spring days just feel birdless and today was one of those. After getting a feeling over Easter that things were warming up I expected quite a bit from today but was to be very disappointed. An overnight frost and cloudless, windless skies in the morning seemed just to have encouraged birds to move on […]
VOTE for the Best Photo of the Week 29 Apr 2017
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. […]
Surucuá aurora (Blue-crowned Trogon) Trogon curucui
Con estas fotografías de un Surucuá aurora obtenidas por Luis Krause en el Pantanal brasilero durante el pasado mes de enero del 2016 completamos en el blog a los 3 integrantes de la familia Trogonidae que habitan en la Argentina, de los tres este es el único que no se encuentra en la Provincia de […]
Immature Eurasian Spoonbill – Jubail
I was birding the Jubail area when I found an immature Eurasian Spoonbill on a wet Sabkha area. The bird was quite some distance away on the ground but flew after a couple of minutes. It circled around but unfortunately did not land again and flew off and away. The status of the species has […]
A good year for Crossbills
It would appear to be a good Crossbill year with sightings now regular in certain parts of Suffolk with this in mind I visited a drinking pool they have been visiting and with patience I was rewarded by several visits from up to nine Crossbill. A Jay and several Siskin also visited the pool and […]
Foreign visitors to the Algarve
Yesterday we took our day off and replaced the steppes of Alentejo with the saltmarshes, beaches and lagoons of the Algarve. It was a long and brilliant day, packed with quality stuff. We left very early to arrive at our first site, Salinas do Forte do Rato in Tavira in good time. It was pretty […]
Letters from Listeners: Odd Things Birds Eat
In the past few weeks, I’ve received a couple of letters from listeners about their backyard birds eating unusual items. Craig Magnuson of Forks, Washington, wrote that he’s seen Evening Grosbeaks, during several different summers, eating cold campfire charcoal shortly after dawn at the Lake Kachess campground in the Wenatchee National Forest. He noted that […]
Arasarí fajado (Chestnut-eared Aracari) Pteroglossus castanotis
El Domingo 22 de Enero nos habíamos levantado un poco mas tarde que lo habitual cuando vamos a pasar el fin de semana al Club Refugio Ombú, la sobremesa luego de la cena de la noche anterior con los amigos santafesinos nos quitó algunas horas de sueño pero de igual manera cuando los rayos del […]