On 3rd June 2011 at the Acebouche Visitor Centre in the Coto Donana National Park, Andalucia, Spain, I observed and photographed a group of Red-rumped Swallows. The weather was fine and extremely hot…
A leucistic Barn Swallow was observed and photographed in southwest Asiatic Russia on 31st July 2010…
On 31st March 2010, near the mouth of the Massa River (Oued Massa), south of Agadir, Morocco, we observed a pair of Zitting Cisticolas. The two birds were first seen mating on a nearby wire fence but then dropped to an inverted position with the female clinging onto the wire and the male (also upside down) holding on to her at the ‘shoulders’…
Following the note on a melanistic Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus in Cheshire & Wirral…
The River Teise, in Kent, has a healthy population of Common Kingfishers Alcedo atthis, which from time to time visit ponds on my nearby property. Kingfishers are generally sporadic and unpredictable visitors throughout year…
In 2010, record numbers of nesting of White-winged Black Terns Chlidonias leucopterus were noted in Poland…
On 19th August 2009 I went to a Breckland heath with a colleague to attempt to locate and ring the two young from a late nest of a pair of Stone-curlews…
On 8th March 2010, my regular gull-watching companion Pete Berry located a remarkable-looking bird on the mudflats at Richmond Bank, Cheshire & Wirral, which took him somewhat by surprise…
Our house in Suffolk was re-thatched in 2003 and since then, mainly in the autumn, I have been aware of regular visits to the thatch by a Green Woodpecker…
In recent years I have spent much time observing Black Woodpeckers at nesting and roosting cavities, mainly in Hungary but also elsewhere in central and eastern Europe. With a telescope, I have been able to obtain close and prolonged views of individual birds and was surprised to note that many birds seemed not to have a circular pupil, but rather a pear-shaped or teardrop-shaped one…
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