August started how July ended – with a few birds spending their summer in an extremely hot Shanghai. Among them, a Purple Heron alternating...
An early morning rise with a departure from home at 0530 hours is how last Sunday started. Our aim was a two-hour drive to...
Our two new blog post series are now one month old, with five posts published each. For our series on Birder’s Lists, we already...
Goodbye August, I won’t be sorry to see you go. Unless you happen to live near the coast, in which case there are plenty...
Spring in Ontario, Canada, is the time for colour and I love colourful things. The following male birds dazzle, as they strut their stuff...
A pattern seems to be developing this summer, of birds with really striking faces. First there was the Lesser Ground-Cuckoo, a species I had...
It starts with a flight, then another, then another, then still, one more – to then realise that the island you’ve just landed on...
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