November 2010

Getting Friendly With Frigatebirds

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I’m currently in the Galapagos, a wonderful paradise of watching birds, snorkeling, and marveling at the evidence of evolution that seems so obvious to us today but was a totally […]

Thou shalt always bird!

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Funny Twitching video Have you seen the Twitcher program yet? If so, maybe some of this from the British Twitching scene makes sense to you.  Thou shalt recognise the face […]

The Fifty Best Birds in Asia!

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Top 50 Asian birds, part 1 OK, I’m mainly doing this to see if anyone’s listening! Oh, and I like to be controversial… These 50-type lists seem to be all […]

Inverted Invaders

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We could call them “nutcases” instead of “nuthatches,” and we wouldn’t be far off.  Nuthatches don’t hatch nuts; they run around on trees, clambering up, clambering down headfirst, making nasal […]

Featured Bird Blogger of the Week

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Howdee all, This is the second week of Featured Bird Blogger of the Week. I hope you all enjoyed Kelly Riccetti’s Red and the Peanut Blog that I featured last […]

Flores Scops-Owl photographed .

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Rare Indonesian owl photographed by Danes News from BirdLife International today – accompanied by the splendid photographed of a Flores Scops-Owl featured above – tells about a Danish funded conservation […]

An interview with Lee Evans

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I – Lee Evans So everyone is STILL talking about that documentary on BBC4? One of the main characters in the documentary, Lee Evans, divides opinion, something he’ll freely acknowledge. […]

ABA gear guide

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Another reason to become an ABA member What a brilliant idea. To collect a number birding gadget reviews into one catalogue just before the christmas shopping is about to start. […]

Pied-billed Grebe in the UK

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In the wake of  finally being able to see the documentary about British Twitchers, a true MEGA bird is discovered. (Don’t laugh if you are west of the pond) A […]

Steve Martin on filming The Big Year

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Steve Martin interviewed by Letterman Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson will star in the 2011 feature film “The Big Year”, based on the book of the same title […]

A Modest Menagerie of Motmots

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Are there nine, twelve, thirteen – or maybe even fourteen species of this Neotropical family? Motmots are loved by everyone. But what makes them so appealing? There’s certainly something attractively […]

Russian Grey Shrike OK with you?

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What’s in  a name Sorry. Was supposed to post last week and just got swamped! Went to do something on Redpolls, to find Rebecca beat me too it and did a much […]

Taita Falcon

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Meet South Africa’s rarest bird – The Taita Falcon Africa’s Taita Falcon is so rare, that are very few photos available on the internet. A search on Flickr drew a […]

Digiscoping Vultures in Extremadura, Spain

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On my recent trip to Extremadura, Spain (Europe’s raptor heaven), the Griffon Vultures and Eurasian Black Vultures absolutely enthralled us with their antics, their fly-bys and just how they are in the air. We spent hours admiring them, and we must have taken many thousands of digiscoped photos of them between the two of us.