10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
In the more normal years, I would spend January visiting the very best wildfowling spots along the Danube and seeing the best birds there are, so in February I would be well saturated with birds and feeling: Still winter? I observed White-tailed Eagles likely a few thousand times, and this didn’t strike me as the dark young bird.
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2014
A range of hills protects the cove from the eastern wind, yet, the bushes are swaying in the rythm of it. We come closer to it, but I cannot find the bird with binoculars. Nick finds a bird-shaped protrusion at the top of the rock – Black-eared Wheatear , not exactly a species I expect to observe from a boat deck.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
One caving friend from a Small Town, Croatia, later told me that it was coming, that it was visible on the horizon, but I lived in a cosmopolitan Belgrade. Bosnian birders often bitterly joke that the only truly protected reserves in the country are minefields. He couldn’t understand. Neither can I. Hence, I had to adopt a new one.
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