Afgelopen zaterdag een drukke dag gehad met verschillende afspraken. ‘s morgens vroeg begonnen, samen met fotomaatje Ruud, om juffers vat te leggen. Alles is dit jaar erg laat zo ook de juffers en andere insecten. Op de plek waar het rond deze tijd meestal krioelt van de juffers, met name weidebeekjuffers, was het nog vrij […]
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Removing the Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) from the List of Threatened and Endangered Species
Yet another tragic misstep by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) in it’s seemingly never ending quest to satisfy cattle ranchers and big game hunters is reflected in its proposal to delist the Gray Wolf (Canis lupus). In its press release Friday, June 7th, FWS writes “The proposal comes after a comprehensive review confirmed […]
Dagskärra
Kanske skall kalla honan för dagskärra, den senaste honan jag fann är fantastisk då hon ligger helt still fast jag ligger 1,5m från henne, tog det lugnt då jag smög närmre. Vilken känsla att få ligga så nära och hon accepterar mig och ligger lugnt kvar. Kom så nära att jag fick byta objektiv från […]
PhotoShare: Close to Calves
If you follow me on social media you would have seen that I was fortunate to spend some time recently at a secluded research waterhole in Etosha National Park, Namibia. I have a bunch of photos to process, but wanted to share a quick image here from the experience. One of the things I was […]
Crimson Sunbird at the Twin Lakes
Here’s the Crimson Sunbird that I was fortunate enough to photograph with the yellow rump that is seldom caught by camera. That rump gave its other name, “Yellow-backed sunbird.” In this photo, the red, black, blue and yellow colored-feathers showed up, but the indigo that is usually manifested in the forehead and chin-throat areas didn’t […]
Occoquan Bay NWR, 6/11/2013
I’m up in Virginia visiting my parents, and so my father and I decided to visit the Occoquan Bay NWR, which is a wonderful area to visit. We walked a couple miles from the parking lot to the Potomac River and back, and saw some pretty fun things. We heard several Yellow-billed Cuckoos there, and […]
Butterflies, Bugs and other Insects
Weather dominates the lives of all living things and changing weather patterns have an effect on the life cycles of most species on the planet. We talk about the weather all the time and European weather, if not global weather are going through changes. In south-west Spain we are feeling and experiencing unsettled and abnormal […]
Summer time
Shachar Shalev (ourKiwi representative) has gone birding over the weekend and the following report shows that it is neverboringaround here. When there are few migrants, there is plenty of time to enjoy some of the region’s very interesting species… I Went out 5:30 in the morning not seriously expecting to find anything. I Started at […]