I got a Text today from the wonderful Howard Vaughan informing me that there was a pair of Black Winged Stilts at RSPB Bowers Marsh. They are the first seen in the UK in 2014 I have been told. I was fortunately about to go on my lunchbreak, so popped over to bowers where a…
Some more photos form my trip to Kefalonia now, with the black winged stilt I saw on Katelios beach. I wandered down the beach hoping for a glimpse of the animal I had heard dive into the reeds or anything else around when I spotted a bird walking along the dead sea grass. I could…
A few more from Lanzarote. Having hired a car the second day of exploring lead us the Salinas del Janubio where the bird reports said black stilts occured, something I had never seen in the wild before. After a short walk along the coastal side of the lake I spotted some. With some careful stalking…