10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
And here I am now, avoiding the two barking dogs trying to bite my tires while I am driving through pre-dawn darkness towards the delta of the river Styx, or Acheron , as it is known today at the Ionian Sea coast of Greece. A guy on a motorbike is approaching me… perhaps a leader of the hunt to warn me off the area for safety reasons?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 15, 2015
“The estuary and the delta of the River Kalamas form the most important wetland of northwest Greece”, so the “ Birding in Greece ” guidebook claims for the area where I am heading, a bit late since I overslept this morning. I am checking the grass for any flash of white and soon my suspicion is confirmed: Cattle Egrets (cover photo)!
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 12, 2024
A Greek Wild Cat , photographed near Lake Kerkini I’ve had a few encounters with wild cats, too, in both France and Greece. These cats are quite numerous around Lake Kerkini in Northern Greece, and I’ve encountered them there several times, including the individual above that allowed itself to be photographed.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills goes on to give greater detail of the former nesting sites in Europe: it could once be found “in southern Germany and Austria, in the valleys of the upper Rhine and Danube Rivers, and in the Alps of Switzerland, Italy and Germany, and perhaps in Hungary and Greece”.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
While tracking brown bears in Greece some time ago, B. The story goes, after the coffee at the first homestead, he visited the neighbour’s, where he had a tsipouro (or two – in itself, a reason enough to travel to Greece). His host’s house was smoke-blackened, everything but his shiny hunting rifles. At some stage they stopped.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 5, 2013
An afternoon is already growing old while I am driving downhill to the Livadi marsh at the island of Kefallonia, Greece. In the approaching sunset, a male Common Kestrel is hunting… possibly some of the Common Quail whose “wet-my-lips” I can hear from the grass. Trips falcons Greece'
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 19, 2013
And here I am now, avoiding the two barking dogs trying to bite my tires while I am driving through pre-dawn darkness towards the delta of the river Styx, or Acheron, as it is known today at the Ionian Sea coast of Greece. A guy on a motorbike is approaching me… perhaps a leader of the hunt to warn me off the area for safety reasons?
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