I’ve been chasing sightings of Yellow-headed Blackbirds in Florida for years. I’ve gone to Palm Beach County, where they are regular in the winter time, I’ve gone up to Alachua County, where they’ve been seen the day before and the day after I was there. I’ve chased them around Lake Apopka, where they’ve always eluded […]
Equinox Eve
Tonight is the last night of winter! Doubtless these two raccoons I saw sitting in a tree last week looking down on snow-covered Central Park in New York City, will welcome the warmer season. Here’s my favorite welcome spring poem “When the Hounds of Spring” by Algernon Charles Swinburne: For winter’s rains and ruins are […]
El Caburé de la casa de don Kusnik
Nuestro sur misionero está lleno de sorpresas para quién esté dispuesto a detenerse algunos momentos del trajÃn cotidiano a contemplar la naturaleza. Recuerdo allá por el 2010 cuando comenzamos con este hobby las sorpresas y las emociones que nos producÃan cada uno de los nuevos hallazgos ornitológicos para nosotros cuando ampliábamos el radio de acción […]
Another Black Scrub Robin – Sarrar, Eastern Province
Whilst birding the Sarrar area of the Eastern Province Phil Roberts and I found two Black Scrub Robin Cercotrichas podobe a species that has only been recorded five times in the Eastern Province making this sixth record as posted about earlier. Amazingly we then found a third bird some kilometres further down the main road […]
Results of the Best Photo of the Week Ended 18 Mar 2017
We are delighted to announce the results of our latest photo competition. Kath Aggiss wins First Prize for her brilliant capture “Dalmatian Pelican”. Noushka Wildlife is awarded Second Prize for her outstanding image “Landing Cargos!”. Third Prize goes to Alan Jonker with “Knysna Louri”. See detailed results below: (click on thumbnails for full scale […]
Marsh Harrier and Short-eared Owls at Elmley NNR
I took a drive down to Elmley this afternoon after work thinking it’s as good a place as any to clear the head after a very hard week of chasing numbers. I spent two hours there with little to note other than singing Skylarks, Lapwings and a few Redshank before it all kicked off. First […]
Tits up
I went for a walk in the forest today to see what the situation was like for drumming woodpeckers. The snow made the going rather tough and I should maybe have chosen skis. There was not much in the way of drumming although I did hear one distant bird. It only drummed very occasionally and […]
What’s Worse Than Forgetting My Camera?
Sometimes when I get up early to go birding on the weekend I forget some of my birding gear because I’m in too much of a hurry. If I forget my scope it’s no big deal. I can still get by with the use of my camera and binoculars. Forgetting my binoculars is more of […]