‘If you cross the bridge you are in Hungary’ was all the book had said. There was no reference to the memorial or that for many in 1956 it was a bridge to freedom. The book in question was no travel guide of the normal kind but ‘Where to watch birds: World Cities’.
Hopefully the Orchids on the Royal St. George’s at Sandwich have now cast their seed and are safe from the wood, the iron and the putter. And the feet of the spectators at the British Open Golf this weekend. For Sandwich Bay is a wildflower paradise.
The Steller’s Jay is another entertaining members of the Crow/Corvid family found in North America. In Colorado I was a bit disappointed to only see a few. My travels along the West Coast of the continent have always been graced with many of these birds, foraging around car parks or in large gardens. And boy [...]
The Clark’s ‘crow‘, perched on the tall pine, perused the the forests of the sunlight mountains. Although crows can have an ominous air about them these birds have an endearing quality. There is a trickster quality to their gait and in the way the fly in small groups amongst the trees. They seem to be [...]
For a European birdwatcher, a Pelican is an exotic sounding bird. A bird of the tropics and the Mediterranean. To see them high on a mountain lake in the High Rockies of Colorado, of course is no surprise. But somehow it seems strange. Of course the White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) breeding grounds are not in [...]
The Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris) is how the Americans refer to our Shore lark. For we in the UK tend to see the bird in winter foraging along the sand dunes and shingle banks on along our coasts. For the Americans and Canadians it is a bird that frequents the seas of open ground – [...]
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