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

Bird blogging in May always gives me the creeps. This ridiculous focus of the Birding Internet on North American wood-warblers is boring on a...

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

Two years ago, I was counting active nests of Rooks in the flat agricultural landscape north of Belgrade, Serbia. We drove for about 290...

Not so long ago, there was a question on this blog: which is the most interesting gull in the world? In the last two...

David recently published a post on your favourite bird blog about the taxonomy of the Purple Swamphen, a massive rail found throughout most of...

It all started during the icy February of 1996. The night temperatures in Belgrade, Serbia, were already below minus 10 Celsius / 14 degrees...

One of those mornings that somehow let the light in, but without a trace of sun. I leave tarmac behind, entering a dirt track...