There are times when I go out to photograph a specific species but come home with images of birds I didn’t expect to see. Yesterday Burrowing Owls with chicks were my target species but I wasn’t able to get as close as I would have liked though I did get images of this lovely Western […]
Birding in Brazil – a short birding in Paraná state on June holiday
On last holiday, Jun 8th, I travelled with my wifeto Guarapuava, Paraná state. It was pretty cold, 8 degrees Celcius, which is too cold to me. I visited the Parque das Araucáreas, a local park that still preserves the Araucaria angustifolia, or Parana pine,which used to be very common in this state, butunfortunatelyisthreatenednowadays. Inside the […]
Freezing Time
Casting a spell to freeze time, a grackle on the path to the perfect crime spirals out of control. • Grackle | Quiscalus quiscula
RSPB Troup Head
I’ve just came back from some time filming the Gannets ofRSPB Troup Head, for the RSPB, to produce a short promotional film of the reserve. We’d planned for me to stay a week, but it soon turned into a two weeks, when I lost my car keys on the cliffs somewhere (most likely off the […]
Birding in Brazil – time to leave the Serra da Canastra National Park
Before leaving, we tried the humminbirds once again. I could get the photos below. And and we were on the road, a final photo: thePlumbeous Seedeater, which I tried during the prior four days. With this photo, I finish the trip to Serra da Canastra National Park. If you missed the prior reports, […]
Best Photo of the Week Competition
During the last week our authors and photographers have been busy and posted a total of 39 articles with some great images. Our competition is called “Best Photo of the Week”. You may wish to click on the images to enlarge them to get the full effect. Please select the three images you like best […]
Spring Migration at Point Pelee
Always An Adventure was hired by Road Scholar Canada / Routes to Learning to guide two back-to-back trips to Point Pelee for spring migration 2012. Besides Point Pelee, Ontario’s Birding Hot Spot, we made stops at Long Point and Rondeau Provincial Parks. Each tour lasted 5 days and occurred during the peak of spring migration. […]
White-winged Doves
White-winged Doves (Zenaida asiatica) are one of the larger gray-colored dove species in North America and they are more at home in semi-arid and desert areas than Mourning Doves. White-winged Doves were at one point in time found mostly in the Rio Grande Valley but they have spread into the Great Plains, along the south […]