The spirit of the mountains high Of beauty surpassing The clouds in the sky His quiet serenity As he prowls His terrain Safe from all humans And their capacity to cause pain.
Wheatears and Wagtails at Landguard
A nice morning at Landguard NR in Suffolk where the place was alive with Wheatears, Willow Warblers and Wagtails with both Yellow and Pied in the dozens feeding and getting ready for the off. I found a couple of Lesser Whitethroat and Common Whitethroat before fly overs from both Common Buzzard and Sparrowhawk. Common Tern […]
Ratona grande (Thrush-like Wren) Campylorhynchus turdinus
Cómo se disfrutan las pajareadas cuando uno puede cumplir con un objetivo propuesto!!!!!!!!; hoy temprano a la mañana fuimos con Roby y Lucho a la Reserva Itá para aprovechar la mañana libre, al menos yo recién entro al colegio a las 11:20 y habÃa tiempo mas que suficiente para sentarse a esperar a que aparezca […]
Yemen Thrush – Tanoumah
Whilst birding the Tanoumah area in summer 2016 I saw a good number of Yemen Thrushes Turdus menachensis including a pair of adults feeding a very young juvenile on the ground. I am not certain if the bird could fly as it was very young but the parents were in close attendance and hopefully it […]
Dunlin
I’ve seen a few pictures recently on Facebook of Bluethroats in gardens so concluded that the passage is peaking and set off to Fornebu this morning with high hopes of gaining good views (and my first sighting this autumn) of one of my favourite birds. My hopes were not to be fulfilled with there continuing […]
Birdie Friends
Take a walk Look around There are magical Moments From the sky To the ground.
Wildlife Photography with the Nikon D810 and 400mm f2.8
When Nikon in South Africa approached me in September 2015 to test out the Nikon D810 and the new lightweight Nikkor 400mm f2.8E FL VR lens I was relishing the opportunity – you see, I was heading to the Mara Triangle in Kenya (part of the Maasai Mara ecosystem) to host a photographic safari in […]
Feature: Sawgrass Lake Park Pt. I
It required a single visit to Sawgrass Lake Park in Pinellas County to consider it one of my favorite wildlife venues in Florida. Sawgrass Lake Park, north of downtown St. Petersburg and southwest of Tampa, was created primarily to manage stormwater flooding in the adjacent city of Pinellas Park. A small waterfall in fact could […]