Sighting a Leopard on a rock is always so exciting. We were about to start our safari into Bandipur National Park and just before we ventured into the forest, we heard Spotted Deer alarm calls right beside the national highway running through the park. Soon someone spotted a Leopard at the edge of the Lantana […]
Pennington Marsh – 29th February
On a beautiful spring like morning, I dropped Tobias off for his last day at school before the Easter holidays and spent a couple of hours at Pennington Marsh. At the corner of Lower Pennington Lane I had a coffee and watched the Lapwing displaying and listened to the Sky Lark but other than small […]
Marsh Harrier Elmley
A very quick trip to Elmley today gave superb views of Marsh Harriers and I even managed to grab a few images as they hunted along the track. The Marsh Harrier was almost lost as a breeding bird in Britain but has recovered enough to have lost it’s red listed flag in 2001. Numbers of […]
White-edged Rockbrown – Wadi Grosbeak
White-edged Rockbrown Hipparchia parisatisis a large butterfly with its prominent white borders. The species is found from the Western Himalayas to Eastern Turkey and in Oman. The normal habitat is rough hillsides with shrubs and grass. Here the butterflies spend much of their time sitting on rocks or on the bare ground; when disturbed they […]
Garganey on Jubilee pond Wanstead
The local patch workers dug our another good Wanstead bird this morning which I shamelessly twitched this afternoon on the way to my mum’s. Having seen Garganey earlier in the week at Lakenheath I didn’t need the tick but hearing news of how well it was showing I couldn’t resist a visit and I’m glad […]
Lechuzón mocho chico (Tawny-browed Owl) Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana
Desde el archivo de fotografías del bloc comparto hoy estas fotografías de un Lechuzón mocho chico fotografiado por Nicolás Pavese hace algunos años ya durante una nocturneada en cercanías de Tacuaruzú Misiones.
Eurasian Hoopoe on migration – Jubail area
Passage of Eurasian Hoopoe has been evident the last few weeks with birds turning up in many areas of the Eastern Province. The species is a widespread common migrant and scarce resident breeder. Passage birds pass from February to mid-Aril and September to October. Birds of the Riyadh Region (Stagg 1994) states it is a […]
Back to life, back to reality
Yesterday was my last day in Eilat as part of our three back-to-back international events (Eilat Bird Festival, COTF and IBOC). I spent the final morning at IBRCE, that at last was in proper form after admittedly slow days. The trees were dripping with Lesser Whites, reedbed exploding with Reed Warblers, hirundines, pipits, wagtails, nightingales, […]