Wooed by gravity, she closes her eyes and falls from heaven as the sun dazzles her wings. • Sparrow | Passer domesticus
Black-Chinned Hummingbirds
I finally mustered up some patience to snag some flight shots of hummingbirds. How’d that happen? They’re all Black-chinned guys and gals and they’re all pretty fancy. In other news…? Finally some some fun migrant warblers (a Blackburnian and Wilson’s) but it’s so slow here. A two day weekend would be great so I could […]
Cream-coloured Courser at Tarifa
One of the rarest waders to turn up in Europe was found by a teacher with a party of schoolchildren out on a field trip on Tarifa beach on the morning of the 12th of April 2012. The teacher knew that it was an unusual bird and phoned Fundación Migres, a local NGO that studies […]
GanzenSail
Afgelopen week ‘s avonds na het werk weer een keer de OVP in gegaan. Deze keer begonnen aan de Almeerse kant in de hoop een vos te vinden. Volgens mij was het goed weer om vossen te spotten. Het was me al een paar keer opgevallen dat het met wat minder weer ook minder vossen […]
A Great Find!
I have been very lucky of late to have the opportunity of capturing a pileated woodpecker family at their nest. The nest was in a barren tree trunk void of branches and only about 20 feet high. On top of that the photo viewing was clear of trees. The light at times was not terrific, […]
A Fishy Case of Mistaken Identity
An article written by Kim Tingley and Published in On Earth Magazine 16th April 2012… By outward appearances, the scalloped hammerhead and its newly discovered twin are almost impossible to tell apart Live sharks are hard creatures to count. Typically, to get a sense of whether a species is flourishing or dying out, scientists have […]
Birding Argentina: early fall in Southern Entre Ríos
Saffron-cowled Blackbird – Photograph: Jorge La Grotteria Autumn have just arrived in Central East Argentina, opening a strange period of time for birding in the area. Some of the summer visitors have already gone to the North, some others are still here, and also some of the winter visitors (who come from their breeding areas […]