Early morning finds me driving southeast through spruce forests, mountain meadows, pastures and an occasional potato field, across Mt. Zlatar in western Serbia, heading...

Gaborone, Botswana; June 1999 Marvellous orange-pink sunrise high over the Indian Ocean… Then, landing on a small airport at Gaborone, Botswana. Impossibly bright blue...

What do you think makes for a good bird hide? I have asked myself that same question many times over the last six months,...

Quiet morning on the Danube, paddling again after too long a time. It is a workday morning and despite being inside the city of...

Instead of waiting for the spring to come to me, I prefer to travel south to greet it. (One may also read this as...

One Common Raven is disappearing towards its nest among the branches of the poplar plantation, only to reappear a few minutes later to give...

A Hooded Crow. Two Feral Pigeons. Three Feral Pigeons. One more Hooded Crow. And so on… not much of a birding day, heh? One...

While February offers some good birding (wintering waterbirds, gulls), it is a kind of an anticlimax after the intensive and hectic schedule of the...