The weather around Bonn was unpredictably volatile in May, with some extremely sunny days followed by a series of cold and wet ones. This...

In a recent post, I already covered some impressions of birding in Bonn in spring. But since this is easily the place where I...

I had just been to Wahner Heide (heath) a few weeks ago and covered that visit in my last post, but I found myself...

When waiting it felt like ages, but once I heard them it felt like they had returned way too early: Firecrests singing in our...

I spent a weekend in Munich recently to visit my girlfriend and my brother. As South Germany always has different birds on offer to...

For a while I was considering together with Jacob, whom I met on Helgoland during my month of volunteering at the bird observatory there,...

Winter birding in Bonn generally appears to be rather bleak, but I can’t really complain with the Wallcreeper that spent several weeks just outside...

After my previous post on my sighting of a Wallcreeper near Bonn, I guess I shouldn’t write a second post on the same bird....