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Canada Goose

Today's bird is a Canada Goose at RSPB Pulborough Brooks.

Curlew

Today is a great day to remember the rainy and grey days of January and February. Just to feel so much better for ourselves for today's magnificent sun,…

Barn Swallow

Very lucky snap this is: catching a Barn Swallow in sharp focus mid-flight is nothing short of a lottery win, especially in such an open pose.

Little Ringed Plover

Continuing with birds snapped in Korission Lagoon with this lovely Little Ringed Plover. We have ventured closer to the shore in one of the clearings and I thought…

Jay

Seeing this photo, one might think this Jay is looking at the photographer but in fact it was trying to remember from up the tree where the acorn…

Yellow-Legged Gull

Surprisingly for an island, Corfu did not have that many water birds, or at least we did not see them. Only at an occasional outing we would see…

Blackcap

This is a very Corfu photo: a Blackcap on a lemon tree. Very happy with this find as this was the only Blackcap we saw in 2 weeks…

Hoopoe

Another bird from the same walk as yesterday – in Korission Lagoon. This Hoopoe was taunting us the whole of the walk: it would fly off as soon…

Black-winged Stilt

No more new outings in Corfu as we are on our way home now. We do, however, have a few dozen photos to go through over the next…

Short-toed Eagle

We had a few birds of prey recently, but this is a much rarer one – never seen before by us and this newsletter: Short-toed Eagle. Two of…

Blue Tit

Lots of birds of prey around and birds we do not see regularly, so I almost forgot that I wanted to have a common bird on an olive…

Sparrowhawk

Not the best backdrop here, but firstly, it is a very rare bird for this newsletter: a Sparrowhawk; and secondly, I didn’t have to work particularly hard for…

Wheatear

This Wheatear flew into view and sat right in front of us not ten minutes from the car park on this long walk around Cape Agia Ekaterinis. It…

Barn Swallow

A slightly more challenging outing yesterday, bird-photography-wise, but I finally managed a half-decent snap of a Barn Swallow, although I was on the wrong side of the sun…

Cirl Bunting

Yesterday’s outing was up the tallest peak on Corfu, but since it is covered with thick forest almost all the way up, I managed only two bird photos….

Kestrel

Weather continues to be nice and we visited the northernmost point of Corfu: Cape Drastis. Pretty stunning views in general, but bird-photography-wise we had a very interesting setting:…

Greater Flamingo

The weather is now in full beam and we are venturing further out. The very first place we went for was Korission Lagoon, which is home to many…

Great Tit

A slight respite from the rain today, so we visited one of the parks – Mon Repos Estate, where apparently Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was born. Found…

Alpine Swift

Yesterday was another day of rain, so we chose a city location for the outing for easier access to shelter. Corfu Town is full of these Alpine Swifts,…

Robin

Well, almost… Happy April Fool’s Day from this Robin.

Magpie

Today was a day of relentless rain in Corfu, so we stayed largely indoors. One down, two more apparently to go, with some improvement by Friday. Sharing a…

Greenfinch

We are on a birdwatching, or so I thought, tour on Corfu, Greece, and the sun was unusually bright today, so I missed quite a few good opportunities….

Coal Tit

Today’s bird is a Coal Tit.

Great Crested Grebe

An interesting interaction between a Great Crested Grebe and a Canada Goose.

Canada Goose

Today’s bird is a Canada Goose.