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Birds Photographed Here
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,…
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…
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…
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….
The Cape Drastis outing in Corfu was one of the most fruitful ones – another bird from there, this Goldfinch, which we snapped at the very end dining…
This might look like a stump, but it is not: it is the top of a telegraph pole with a Great Tit singing (almost) on top of it,…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…