Serbia

Even before I turn the engine off, I hear the frog-like song of the Great Reed-Warblers. In a cold morning…

At the snowy Danube riverbank, we are waiting for geese to come to their roost inside the mostly submerged island….

Worried by the lack of appropriate action by the authorities (as described in the previous post), this year I invited…

…or, how critical are you in twitch or dip situations? Here is one example. In the Old World, Horned (Slavonian)…

Following some bird call, I walk across the hanging deck bridge. Little by little, that woodpecker-like voice takes me ever…

Entering some old data at eBird, I found myself puzzled with one record. I was canoeing the Danube backwaters inside…

Twenty years ago, flocks consisting of a thousand European Turtle Doves were a common sight in Serbia. Ten years ago,…

July morning in the Balkans, early enough to create an illusion of a cool morning, umm, almost. Wheat fields around…

Early morning finds me driving southeast through spruce forests, mountain meadows, pastures and an occasional potato field, across Mt. Zlatar…

What do you think makes for a good bird hide? I have asked myself that same question many times over…