The view outside the city wall Hoopoe Hooded Crow A controlled Song Thrush at The Jerusalem Bird Observatory Syrian Woodpecker in the Obs garden Juvenile Masked Shrike in the Rose Garden Common Bulbul in the hand A controlled female Hawfinch An endangered Mountain Gazelle Female Blue Rock Thrush Long-billed Pipit A male Fincsh’s Wheatear A […]
Jungle Cat A female ‘Eastern’ Stonechat Pygmy Cormorant Southern Grey Shrike Laughing Dove Crested Lark A pair of White-tailed Eagles Common Kestrel Some more images from the Hula Valley. The Jungle Cat was particularly exciting as we were not expecting to have got such a great view of one. More shots to follow..
Some of the 30,000 + Common Cranes in the Hula Valley Common Stonechat White Pelicans in formation White-breasted Kingfisher White Wagtail Greater Spotted Eagle Common Kingfisher Peregrine Armenian Gull Black Kite Greater Spotted Eagle I’ve just got back from a great trip to Israel to attend the Hula Bird Festival near the Syrian border in […]
‘Being A Bird’ a fabulous new bird book for kids in Kenya Apologies for the paucity of entries in the past couple of weeks. Since my last scribblings I have been to Kenya, Nairobi to be exact and back plus just returned from Israel – but more about that trip tomorrow. In Kenya I was […]
Sharpe’s Longclaw – extremely rare and extremely rarely seen atop bushes! Mountain Wagtail White-backed Duck Long-tailed Fiscal A mighty Crowned Eagle
Craning my neck looking at a Hartlaub’s Turaco in the canopy A juvenile Little Sparrowhawk The Hartlaub’s again A female Baglafecht Weaver Red-billed Firefinch Yellow-throated Longclaw
Black-shouldered Kite White-browed Coucal Some four legged friends Three-banded Plover Long-tailed Fiscal Rufous-naped Lark Yellow-billed Oxpecker Giraffes standing to attention
Some great habitat A Pink-backed Pelecan in a tree Pink-backed Pelecan Black Crake An African Harrier Hawk being mobbed by a Cape Rook Red-chested Cuckoo
Somali Golden-breasted Bunting Common Bulbul A male Baglafecht Weaver African Harrier Hawk A view of The Rift More tomorrow. Late for my appointment!
A dozy Feral Pigeon Beach shot near Hartlepool Looking the other way A Mediterranean Gull
Checking shots of Dunlin Hanging out with Extremadura Tourism’s very lovely Vanesa Palacios Watching an Osprey Me and Gorka Gorospe who represents the Navara region of Spain Birding by boat Giving my talk Talking about Ring Ouzels – again! Images curtesy of Gorka Gorospe
Look what popped out of our grassland at The Scrubs this morning – a beautiful Short-eared Owl! This bird was almost trodden upon at 0740. It flapped up and glided over the hawthorns to pitch down in the vegetation. It was flushed again 30 minutes later and put on a brilliant flypast display before seemingly […]
I’ve just spent three lovely days in the Aberlady Bay area, East Lothian, Scotland at the kind invitation of Malcolm Duck at Ducks at Kilspindie. Aside from giving a talk and hanging out with Scottish Ornithology Club folks, I spent a couple days birding with local watchers and lovely fellows Darren Woodhead and Dave Allan. […]
A male Ring Ouzel (Stephen Daly) After a fairly busy recent schedule today was going to be a down day for me in order to regroup before picking up the baton again for a flight to Scotland tomorrow and a few days of public appearances. I woke up at 6am, as per usual, programmed by the […]
I just spent two fabulous days on the Sado Estuary around 30 km south of Lisbon, Portugal. I was speaking at the Obervanatura Bird Fair within the bird rich Sado Estuary. It’s a massive area covering some 57,000 acres. An aspect of the Sado Estuary A House Sparrow line-up A movement of local White Storks […]
Why aren’t spiders as easy to recognise as some birds? I photographed this splendid specimen in my garden today. My money is on it being a Four Spot Orb Weaver. Thoughts anyone?
Sunrise at The Scrubs A segment of the legions of Carrion Crows that pass overhead towards the prison One of several Jays that traversed the Scrubs sky A sole Starling Vis migging on Sunday morning did not result in a huge amount of birds. Several Meadow Pipits, an unseen calling Pied/White Wagtail, assorted finches, a […]
TUB and BirdLife’s Jip Louwe Kooijmans posing with the swans Looking for Great White Egret TUB wobbly on the bike Still wobbling! A couple of shots of me in action in Amsterdam escorted by Jip Louwe Kooijmans. Thanks to Rob Buiter for the images www.robbuiter.nl
Isn’t it funny that corvids always attack and mob anything bigger than them and or with a hooked bill.
A male House Sparrow The same bird on the deck Northern Wheatear The same bird as above surveying the scene A probable 1st winter Robin Had a nice r&r weekend in Hastings. I laid down my binoculars for most of the weekend but couldn’t resist a walk along the coast on Sunday. Had loads of […]