Winding between the old Olives, the road ahead of me veers into the hills of the Pelion Peninsula, near the harbour town of Volos....

Entering some old data at eBird, I found myself puzzled with one record. I was canoeing the Danube backwaters inside Belgrade, Serbia, on a...

Twenty years ago, flocks consisting of a thousand European Turtle Doves were a common sight in Serbia. Ten years ago, those flocks were reduced...

July morning in the Balkans, early enough to create an illusion of a cool morning, umm, almost. Wheat fields around me were harvested in...

Great Egrets Ardea alba are confusing on many levels. The first level is the most harmless of them all since it only pertains to...

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

Germany is currently experiencing something for which the English have no nice expression. We call it a “mouse gradation year”. I was not able...

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