Noisy wing beats, heavy landing behind the stern, water splashing everywhere and then, a hit of a heavy wing on my upper arm… A...

May 2009 After a wakeup call at highly uncivilised 3.45 am, at the crack of dawn I am sitting in a car by the...

Before my trip to Austria that bridged January and February, I had never really had that country high on my list of places I...

As usual at this time of year, I visited the city landfill to look for gulls. To be honest, mostly to look for one...

The entire world, it seemed, was buried under two feet of snow. I was checking weather forecasts for days looking for a window of...

I dipped a bird recently – possibly a lifer. While crossing Gramos Mountain in northern Greece, a Dendrocopos woodpecker flew over the road and...

In the most of Europe, Brown Bear is a mythical creature that lives only in mediaeval tapestries and folk tales. It has become extinct,...

Have you read my blogs on birding Greece? Presuming that you live somewhere in Europe and plan a car trip to Greece, let me...