![[Passarinhando no Brasil] Lagoa dos Peixes, Tavares. RS](https://i1.wp.com/focusingonwildlife.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Heterospizias-meridionalis-Mostardas-IMG-18167-2.jpg?w=750&resize=750,0&ssl=1 "[Passarinhando no Brasil] Lagoa dos Peixes, Tavares. RS")
Last weekend I travelled to Lagoa dos Peixes, Tavares – RS, in the very south of Brazil. It’s considered as a sanctuary for migrating birds. It’s a paradise for birding. I have added below some of the images I captured during Friday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday. I hope you enjoy. Savanna hawk / Heterospizias meridionalis […]
A Bestiary : Songbirds ~ American Redstart
The animated and flashy warbler American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) is the final warbler featured in my Bestiary. Migrating songbirds are returning to our Western Massachusetts hillside now as I finish the warbler section of A Bestiary — Tales From a Wildlife Garden. I have enjoyed recalling and writing about the numerous encounters I have had […]
VOTE for the Best Photo of the Week 03 May 2014
During the last week our members have again entered some outstanding top-ranking wildlife images for the “Best Photo of the Week” competition. Click on the first image and then page through the slideshow. Please select the three images you like best of all and VOTE for them at the bottom of this page (to ensure […]
Black Birds at Marl Bed Flats
Not all black birds are blackbirds, and not all blackbirds are black, but they are all birds. This morning at Marl Bed Flats I saw lots of black birds, and some of them were blackbirds. My favorite blackbird, though, was only partly black. Bobolinks are blackbirds, and the males are black, the females aren’t. I […]
Plea for the Pyrenean stags
The largest and best reproductive males are systematically culled for their trophies even during the bellowing period. Result: these males are not seen any more and the younger ones hesitate to come down in the Pyrenean valleys to join the females; this is what’s left to admire… A sad situation. As the wild boar, this […]
En fiskgjuse
Efter flera dåliga speldagar med tjäder så får man väl uppsöka något annat, fiskgjusen har börjad med sin häckning, det är inte länge sedan den kom tycker man.