Standing up for Nature
Oscar writes: This is a bird I’ve never photographed before, so on my last morning in Suffolk I spent a few hours just wandering through the woodland trying to find them. It took a while, and trying to manoeuvre 800mm of lens onto something so small took some doing, but by the time I drove…
Many people would think of owls and woodpeckers if they think of Slovakia bird trips. We visited the Eye of the Sea, Morské oko, and walked around the attractive lake and then up to the top of a hill through the ancient beechwoods. No owls that we could see but plenty of woodpeckers: Grey Headed,…
This is the Senne fishponds SPA – and has been the subject of an EU Life project. Can you almost hear the waterbirds singing when you look at that photograph? This was a day with warblers coming out of our ears: Barred, Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Marsh Warbler, Icterine, Grasshopper,…
This time last week I was in Slovakia – in the Kosice region of eastern Slovakia. Well done to those who guessed correctly but the fact that Poland and Hungary were more popular choices shows that Slovakia has some ground to make up with British birders looking for a bird-rich destination in eastern central Europe. …