10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2023
Dave Gosney’s Finding Birds Series covers mostly the Western Palearctic and describes birding in various regions of Portugal, Spain, Morocco, France, Finland, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, etc., with some additions, namely South Texas, The Gambia, and Goa (India). No more, no less.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2024
What I didn’t notice until I downloaded my photographs ( above and below ) was the fact that she had been colour ringed, with a red ring on her right leg, and green ring above yellow on her left leg. (Males have noticeably shorter beaks.)
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Looks like a scaup of some sort, but it’s not quite right My bird certainly had the peaked crown characteristic of a Lesser Scaup; the feathers on its head looked black at a distance, while closer inspection revealed a purple sheen. Lesser Scaup has only a slight black tip to the beak, while this bird had a clear black band.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 16, 2020
The Ural Owl inhabits old and undisturbed boreal forests, in an unbroken belt from Sweden and Finland across Russia to Japan, and is rarely seen to the south, only here and there, in the Carpathians (Slovakia/Ukraine/Romania/eastern Serbia) and Dinaric Alps (Croatia/Bosnia/western Serbia). Two years ago I screamed “UralOwlUralOwlUralOwl!!!”,
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2024
With its striking combination of colour rings I suspected that it would be easy to find out more about this particular bird, and I was right. It was feeding on mud flats in the harbour of Brancaster Staithe, on the North Norfolk coast. The information I received didn’t indicate the age of the bird.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 17, 2019
Two hundred yards further, the first Common Goldeneye and Smew started to appear and, while counting Smew and geese, a Great Bittern took flight from one stand of reeds to another, right in front of us. And this one chose to fly right in front of us. It is not an uncommon bird, but being so secretive, I see it only every other year.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2015
One exception was the American Dippers team who, when asked mid-race why they decided to do things backwards, replied somewhat prophetically that they had it right and that everyone else was doing this race the wrong way round. As for the results of the race, it sure was a close one.
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