There are many wonderful birding places around Lake Jesup, but the Lake Jesup CA easily has the most acreage. The conservation area is divided into three tracts: East Tract, North Tract, and the Marl Bed Flats Tract. All three tracts have value and are good places to visit, but finding these tracts can sometimes be […]
Ave fragata (Magnificent frigatebird)
Esta especie fue fotografiada durante mis vacaciones en el Brasil, si bien en su distribución abarca parte del litoral marítimo de la Argentina no es una especie que se adentre al continente. Desde que llegué al Balneario Camboriú las observaba prácticamente todos los días, obtuve algunas fotos en dicha ciudad pero estas aves no se […]
A few bits and pieces in the UAE Part II
Ajban farms is a favorite site of mine , located between Dubai and Abu Dhabi. It is a desert scrub area with large water lakes. Unfortunately the water is constantly being pumped into tankers for nearby constructions sites. Not sure how much longer there will be water there, once gone I am sure there will […]
Breeding Dippers
Lots more video to come now that I have worked out how to post it! These White-breasted Dippers are the birds that I watched daily for 8 weeks last year.
Joe Overstreet and E. Lake Toho, 2/9/2013
It’s always fun when you get two lifers in two days. Yesterday a Lincoln’s Sparrowand this morning a Long-billed Curlew. I drove down to the Joe Overstreet Landing and had a great time there. The Curlew was very cooperative and easily found. It was hanging out with numerous Wilson’s Snipe. Then I found a Crested […]
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Dendrocopos major – Piciformes – Picidae – Remarkable facts: This bird is zygdactylous: it has 2 toes turned toward the front and the 2 others toward the back, just as all parrots. Its tong is long, viscous and has many corpuscles and the end is flat and sharp with many small hooks; the bird can […]
A few bits and pieces from the UAE Part I
Not had much to report recently, travels have been limited and I have also been suffering with some niggly back problems. So here is a small blog showing some of the images I have taken over the last few weeks in the UAE. Dubai Internet City not only being mine and many other people’s work […]
Peregrine Falcon – Falco peregrinus
Wanderfalken, Falco peregrinus bekamen ihren Namen aus dem lateinischen Wort “Peregrinus Wanderer oder Pilger” was treffend auf diesen Raubvogel passt. Die Falken sind fast immer unterwegs und sind in ganz Nordamerika und rund um den Globus ausser in der Antarktik anzutreffen. Das Vorkommen war in den 50ger Jahren durch DDT- Vergiftung extrem gefaehrded. Inzwischen haben […]