FESTIVE GREETINGS!

Pygmy Owl in Belarus

We are starting to look back at our year birding in Central and Eastern Europe. There have been so many highlights! We will post a few images of some of them in the coming weeks. So many very happy and satisfied clients/friends, too. It was a pleasure to guide you all! Anyway, here we go, a Pygmy Owl in May in Belarus. Not a great photo because we did not want to get too close to the nesting hole. It was a very popular little bird!

Syrian Woodpecker

Syrian Woodpecker Dendrocopos syriacus from a recent tour in Hungary.

Long-tailed Tit

The Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus is common and widespread but still very popular with birders. Head colour varies, even within populations. Here is one with a whitish head in Hungary.  

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

Europe's smallest member of the family... Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. An impressive, industrious, little bird, and an always popular one! This is a male - see the red cap.

Red-backed Shrike

An adult male Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio from a recent in Austria.

Great Spotted Woodpecker

An adult male Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major from a recent tour around Belarus. 

Wallcreeper, Czechia...

When we are not guiding, we are still out birding. At the weekend we checked out a few sites in Moravia, in the very south of the Czech Republic, Czechia...

Slovenia - 5 million Bramblings

Yesterday we visited a roost of an estimated 5 million (yes, that is 5,000,000 !!!) Bramblings in Slovenia. Here are a few of the birds...