I thought we had bid farewell to Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica) for the year with last week’s post, but we’ll have them back one...
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Yesterday evening I got home from the second Swarovski Skills Camp at Lake Neusiedl in the east of Austria. I am still tired from...
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Before my trip to Austria that bridged January and February, I had never really had that country high on my list of places I...
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I have never before had a true nemesis bird. Sure, occasionally a bird has given me problems, like Black-backed Woodpeckers back in 2007 when...
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Yesterday was a public holiday in Austria and we had decided to take a drive out to Lake Constance / Bodensee to see what...
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I was just browsing through my iPhoto library and I realised that I have almost no photos of the Mute Swan (Cygnus olor). In...
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So, I have now been living in the Alps for about 4 years. And I cannot claim that it was easy at first. I...
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