Spring at last

Selection of birds at Dunwich Heath on Saturday and Willington on Sunday.

Is Spring Extinct?

Well if you want to see hirundines this spring then I guess you need to be inventive.  This one seemed quite settled at the Natural History Museum on Monday.

There is an exhibition on Extinction currently showing - all a bit Jurassic Park and likely to engender those who wont bother to much if we lose the odd species knowing we can re-engineer them at some point in the future.  I wonder where they will put them and what they might feed on?  And what species would you want to bring back?

Be nice if they can grow a few of these though?  CAT F?

Ethiopian Image Montage

Love the funky Ethiopian backing track from Gigi.

Endemic Selection

A few of the endemic species easily seen in Ethiopia.  Species shown, Banded Barbet, Abyssinian Owl, Blue-winged Goose, Rouget's Rail, Black-winged Lovebird, Thick-billed Raven, Ethiopian Siskin, Brown-rumped Seedeater, White-billed Starling, White-collared Pigeon, Wattled Ibis and White-winged Cliff-Chat.

Wolfie

The world's rarest canid and Africa's most endangered carnivore.

Fly Overs

A small selection of my images from Ethiopia - what a superb country for birds!

A Hearty Breakfast

At a local butcher's north of Addis Ababa.  Might need to review the garden feeders to see if I can pick up a few exotics!

Beardies

Great spectacle watching a pair of Lammergeier being mobbed by Fan-tailed Ravens from the Portuguese Bridge Hotel, Debre Libanos north of Addis Ababa.

First Redpolls of the year

The local birds are hungry in the recent freeze and a few feeding Redpolls are more confiding than I'm used to.  Good to see the local Kingfisher still on the river following the Christmas floods.

Monchrome Slav

Harsh lighting but I'm not complaining.

Winter Sun

Podicep Cousins

Better light on Sunday morning before the dog walkers or should I say dog swimmers, had a negative effect at Priory CP.

Waxwing in Kempston

Invasion has begun - bring on some sunshine.

Dip o'the Day - Penduline Tit

My MVCP "dip" list is becoming quite extensive with the latest addition today.  There were two birds seen this morning but I didn't see any and in fact, even struggled to ID the hide I needed to be in. 

I've never really taken a liking to MVCP if I'm honest which is probably linked to why I seem to have dipped more birds their than I've seen and don't go there enough to remember where the hides are!