10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Testing the BTX at Vlasina Lake, South-east Serbia (note the forehead rest and finder) As an amateur astronomer and astrophotographer I am quite familiar with binoviewers and employ them frequently for visual work with telescopes. It is my opinion from personal experience that there is really no point in buying the BTX without the extender.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2021
Also, it is a part of the international ecological corridor and the “Confluence of the Sava and the Danube Rivers” Important Bird Area (IBA), already proposed for a nature reserve by the Government’s Institute for the Protection of Nature of Serbia. Now, I have mixed feelings: cautious and by experience mistrustful, but happy.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
I observe them, but feel I still lack experience to tell with certainty the SEO from LEO in flight. Back in November, one group of British birders visited Serbia and, as one of them later wrote in his blog, their local guide promised them the GGS – “That one is guaranteed“, the guide declared. ‘He Long-eared Owls are irresistibly cute.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
Next time I will try my local patch of Beljarica backwaters in Belgrade and check how much different the NL experience is. So I watched an unknown duck now, quite bright, clearly a male. Well, an escapee it may be, but still something totally new and challenging (also, a first for Serbia).
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2015
I have asked myself that same question many times over the last six months, until last week, when I was involved in an opening ceremony of five new bird hides at the Palic Lake, by the town of Subotica in the very north of Serbia, along the border with Hungary (all photos are from that area). They got the message right. And so did I.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
I was canoeing the Danube backwaters inside Belgrade, Serbia, on a warm and sunny November day when a Northern Goshawk tried to catch one of two Pygmy Cormorants. The Mallard did something that all dabbling ducks can do but I haven’t seen any of them doing it but this one – it took a dive and disappeared underwater. (My
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 10, 2015
To those unfamiliar with the Old World geography, this means that these grebes breed way north from the banks of the Danube, where I reside, and overwinter by the coasts, away from land-locked Serbia. As a consequence, this species is only a rare vagrant in Serbia. Which costed me a lifer.
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