10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2020
Having observed the Cattle Egret in breeding plumage at the Derby Poo Ponds on June 19th we found ourselves at Windjana Gorge first thing the following morning. We spent several hours at Windjana Gorge and there was a great variety in wildlife as always. As we all well know there is something very different about 2020.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 3, 2013
In short, the accepted view used to be that a small breeding population of Egyptian Vultures inhabited Southern Africa, but has vanished facing the spread of towns, roads and farms. In the 1970s we had two to four breeding pairs, in the 1980s one to two, in the 1990s it was zero to two (irregular breeding).
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2011
It actually looked like the station owner was breeding birds rather than cattle! Other wildlife also has to cope with all the lying water and we saw this Gould’s goanna on the bitumen road and it was having a bit of a look around to see if it could find anywhere dry that was not part of the road system!
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 28, 2012
On the ground we saw large numbers of Red-wattled Lapwings and White-tailed Lapwings , the latter of which breed at the site. Blue-cheeked Bee-eaters are something of a speciality, breeding here before flying off to Africa for the winter. Lot’s of lapwings at the moment on the site!
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 28, 2012
On the ground we saw large numbers of Red-wattled Lapwings and White-tailed Lapwings , the latter of which breed at the site. Blue-cheeked Bee-eaters are something of a speciality, breeding here before flying off to Africa for the winter. Lot’s of lapwings at the moment on the site!
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2021
My outing’s total count for water-dependent waterfowl, shorebirds, herons, gulls, and terns (I’m leaving land-loving Cattle Egrets out of this count) was around 120; the count for a similar date in 2018 was around 2000 individuals. A single Laughing Gull turned up in his breeding plumage, several months early.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2019
The Kerkini Lake National Park is my favourite birding area in the whole of the Balkans and while I’ve been here in April and again (migration), September (migration), October (coffee break), December and January (wintering), this was my first time in the breeding season, in May. But nowadays, they, too, breed here, about 20 pairs this year.
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