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 […]
Results of the Best Photo of the Week Ended 23 Nov 2013
We are delighted to announce the RESULTS of our latest “Best Photo of the Week” Competition. First Prize is awarded to Nancy Elwood for her outstanding photo ‘Flight of the Roseate Spoonbill’. Nitin Jain wins Second Prize with ‘Fishing together’ and Third Prize goes to Howard Cheek for ‘Headwaters’ (see images below). The voting for all […]
Happy Hour Rush
Elephants love water. You know that by now (at least some of you do). I love watching breeding herds rush to the water as they start to smell the nourishment. One of the best places to do this is around the waterholes of Etosha National Park in Namibia, which is exactly where I am headed […]
Marsh Wren at the North Tract of Lake Jesup CA
Right near the entrance of the North Tract of the Lake Jesup Conservation Area, there’s a little pond with a couple very vocal Marsh Wrens. One of them was very photogenic and allowed me to get a few photos. I found this bird a couple weeks ago, and I’m just getting around to posting them. […]
Review: Bird Sense: What it’s Like to be a Bird, by Tim Birkhead
Who’d be a bird anyway? Chickens have bi-focal vision: one eye for the close-up work of pecking seed; one for the fox on the horizon or the hawk in the sky. Peregrine falcons don’t swoop directly on prey – as the crow flies, to coin a phrase – but in a wide arc, using the […]
Ferruginous Hawk on Rat Farm Road
Our first Christmas Bird Count will be coming up on December 14th in Fall River Mills so I thought I would take a drive up there to see what I could see as the day approaches. Rat Farm Road is a long gravel road leading from the small town of McArthur, through some sage/prairie habitat […]
Black Pennant, Selysiothemis nigra
Selysiothemis nigra Black Pennant Quite a scarce dragonfly in Europe, its locations are few in Spain, Italy, Greece and a few oasis in North Africa, otherwise it occurs commonly in Central Asia and the Middle East. We found this species in Catalonia, Spain where it is not recorded as being present. Its wing-cells are the […]
Pato real o Pato criollo, Muscovy Duck, Cairina moschata
Hoy les presento al Pato real, o también llamado Pato criollo; las fotos que ilustran esta entrada fueron obtenidas el día Sábado 19 de Octubre en una isla que se encuentra en el Arroyo Garupá en cercanías de la localidad de Candelaria; en los días previos me encontré con Silvio Wandelow, un amigo que también […]