At the snowy Danube riverbank, we are waiting for geese to come to their roost inside the mostly submerged island. It is a January...

“Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no...

I like 8x30s. I started with one such pair, until I capsized my kayak and had to swim to the riverbank with bins around...

Worried by the lack of appropriate action by the authorities (as described in the previous post), this year I invited two more wildlife protection...

…or, how critical are you in twitch or dip situations? Here is one example. In the Old World, Horned (Slavonian) Grebe breeds in a...

I think I was 19 when I made my first bucket list of things I’d like to do, from horse-back riding to sailing, rafting,...

Cover photo: Yellow-legged (left), Caspian Gull (right) – Courtesy of cro-ringing.blogspot.com How to count tens of thousands of birds that are all white below and...

Following some bird call, I walk across the hanging deck bridge. Little by little, that woodpecker-like voice takes me ever further and yet, I...