El Pico de plata fue la primer especie que pude fotografiar a los pocos metros de cruzar la primer tranquera del camino de acceso a la UC. Cambyretá; unos minutos antes me quedé con las ganas de fotografiar a una pareja de halcones que perchaban en los postes del costado del camino porque todavía la […]
VOTE for the Best Photo of the Week 31 May 2014
The “Best Photo of the Week” competition has been redesigned to make voting easier and a lot more 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. After registering your vote you will […]
Marl Bed Flats, 5/22/2014
Yesterday morning I visited Marl Bed Flats again. I’m pretty amazed at how good this place has been in May. It’s given me several Seminole County firsts, including a Short-billed Dowitcher, Stilt Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper and now a Semipalmated Plover. Black-necked Stilts are still here, though in much smaller numbers; now only about 4 remain […]
Lions vs Giraffe: The Prelude
I’ve been putting off telling this story on my blog…but I feel that it’s time. In November 2013 I went on a very long safari-roadtrip with my lovely wife and our 2 young children. The destinations were to be the Etosha National Park in Namibia and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in South Africa. The story […]
Mindre flugsnappare
Nu var det dax att få en inspelning av lätet från en mindre flugsnappare. Mindre-flugsnappare-ZOOM0122-140518 Några bilder blev det även om jag inte hade planerat för det.
The American Oystercatcher
I was in a marsh down the shore in southern New Jersey last week. I had stopped the car to look at some distant shorebirds in the mud. Then I noticed these two oystercatchers very close. I don’t know how I had missed them. These large shorebirds are boldly patterned with black heads, white bellies, […]
2 species of owl flies
Ascalaphe loriot – Libelloides ictericus -Neuroptera – Ascalaphidae 4 genders of owl flies divided into 14 species in Europe.This first one is a scarce insect for which I haven’t found the English vernacular name. It occurs around the Mediterranean dry countries and can be rarely found in about 4 French departments. We encountered this individual […]
