Lake Kerkini National Park in the north of Greece is the very best birding area in the Balkan Peninsula and definitely among the top...

For sure, this is an odd sight, can you even imagine an agile swimmer such as cormorant drowning in the water? But let’s start...

With only a few more days left, 2017 was coming to a close. Birdwise, it turned out to be a good one and my...

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

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

Instead of waiting for the spring to come to me, I prefer to travel south to greet it. (One may also read this as...

Early September morning. The sun rises over the village of Chrysochorafa, by Kerkini Lake in the north of Greece, not far from the triple...

Our bird guide, Georgos Spiridakis, is driving slowly along this dirt track, checking the mud all the time. And then he stops and leaves...