New Year’s Day 2014. With binoculars around my neck, I am leaving home, wondering which will be the first species on my year list....

Since I have started to bird by kayak, it took me a lot of time to realise that paddling is not the synonym for...

It is mid-day of the mid-summer day in the Balkans. And it is hot. My wheels are rolling down the dirt track in the...

These days I am busy with something called the “avitourism product“ of Belgrade, Serbia. Yes there are birding sites and there are birds –...

The forecast said „rain all day“ and with a mug of coffee in the morning, seeing a bright blue sky through the window I...

Our bird guide, Georgos Spiridakis, is driving slowly along this dirt track, checking the mud all the time. And then he stops and leaves...

I am half-awake, but keep my eyes closed. Listening to the wheeping of stays and shrouds and screeching of fenders against the next sailboat,...

I love birds. I like to travel. And – I hate flying! Does that make sense? If you do not see packing as the...