Sandy terrains are at their best during spring migration and this is the off season for such habitats. July is that boring period after...

And then, two canids appeared in my scope field of view… My plan was that the downpour should finally be over in the morning,...

1. Two more sparrows on the macadam ahead of me… In my early birding days, I would simply assume that they are sparrows, possibly...

Birders are utterly suspicious characters. By Greek law enforcement officers, I had already been taken for a spy. But, seen from the opposite angle,...

It has been a while since I birded a new area for the first time – I sure missed the feeling. And now I...

First: Dream about it As a teenager in Yugoslavia, I used to buy National Geographic in secondhand bookshops. Fascinated with New York’s Jamaica Bay,...

Even before I turn the engine off, I hear the frog-like song of the Great Reed-Warblers. In a cold morning after a rainy night,...

At the snowy Danube riverbank, we are waiting for geese to come to their roost inside the mostly submerged island. It is a January...