10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2024

These included nesting Lapwings, while we also added Little Ringed Plover ( pictured below ), Ringed Plover (four migrants, pausing briefly before heading north), and a fine Black-tailed Godwit in full breeding plumage. This fen has breeding Marsh Harriers, and we saw at least three different birds, while Cuckoos called close by.

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Birds Kenya Barn Owls Owls 130

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As I am already familiar with CL Companion, ELs and NLs, as well as the ATS/STX scopes, now I had a chance to try those toys I am not familiar with, such as hunting EL Range binoculars with built-in electronics telling the user the distance and an azimuth angle (interesting, but I still prefer my binoculars without batteries).

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Austria Factory Asia Battery 298

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2021

I took so many photos on this outing that my battery ran out of charge before I finally saw the Grebes , so no photos of those.). In good years, some Snowy Plovers breed on this lake, but I only saw a handful there over the past year, all around the one section that did not quite dry up.).

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Ducks Battery Species Groups 218

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Head for the sea only when you fully recharge your batteries. Other species of interest include the southernmost breeding population of Greylag Goose in Europe, Goosander (at bigger and deeper Megali Prespa), Hazel Grouse (at Mt. One of the best areas to bird is the causeway between the two lakes.

Greece 178

Greece Albania Macedonia Europe 178

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Apparently, when breeding, the two parents divide incubation duties, with one bird taking over the daytime duties and another one the nighttime. At between 4 pm and 6 pm, to be exact. Of course, many people still know exactly what they did when this happened.

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Birds Eagles Elephants Rhinoceros 229

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2014

They need to go north to breed and we will anxiously await the return of the adults and the juveniles later in the year. You have to have a lot of respect for all migratory birds when you imagine the lives they live and the incredible journeys they make to enable them to breed and to continue to survive in a changing world.

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Belarus Cameroon Taiwan China 162

10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2016

How can we say that magic is a farce when the May blossoms are backdropping bright, breeding plumaged Canadas , Magnolias , Chestnut-sideds , chocolate Bay-breasteds , and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks ? When a new morning greets us with a symphony of wood-warblers, thrushes, and other spring birds?

Costa Rica 100

Costa Rica 2016 2001 Battery 100