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I saw this corpse washed up on the shore. I took a close-up of its talons to see if that helps with the identification. I found it in the Thermaikos gulf, Thessaloniki. Anyone know what It might be? I dont know many birds of prey, and this one is really decomposed. I just worry if it is a rare...

I took a picture of this bird at a marsh yesterday. I am not sure about zitting cisticola, I think it looks too dark (may be the bad lighting, it was a cloudy day) and too chunky. But then again I dont know any passerines with a clear, unspotted chest, that would match the wing pattern and...

I saw this one at a wetland with lots of reeds yesterday. It looks like an emberiza species to me but I am not quite sure, because I've never seen it before. Maybe a female reed bunting? because I saw a male near there a few weeks ago.

I saw this one today, it looks like a common buzzard, but the color variation in there birds confuses me, and I can't find many reference pictures of common buzzards with this plumage sitting down. Is there a chance that this is something else, like a european marsh harrier? (there are marsh...

On February 20th I was birding in my back yard and I noticed a thrush. It was the first time I ever saw a thrush so I was skeptical. At first I Identified it as a song thrush (notice the arrow-shaped brown spots) but afterwards I looked up other pictures of song thrushes and none of them had...

A compilation of Barred warbler heads based on video I took in Greece few years ago. Barred warblers are the biggest of their family in Europe are not colouful birds, but they are very melodious and definitely belong to my favorites.

My mother sent me this video of a singing bird (bird itself not shown in video, only its song can be heard), but I'm not 100% sure it was indeed singing, and I have been having a hard time IDing it... It's probably a common species. But what is puzzling me is the time of the year the bird was...

In Greece this year there have been quite a few records of Yellow-browed Warblers with a couple of birds overwintering. Two of these birds have sound recordings submitted to ebird, which helpfully creates sonograms. At first the calls seemed a little off to me, not really the high pitched...

Looking for long eared owls, dipped but found this little fella, roosting in an olive grove.

The light wasn't with us for this one.

The ford at the Meladia Valley is often a stopping off point for passerines, herons and wading birds. Raptors often patrol the area including 4 species of harrier, short toed eagle, buzzards and several types of falcon.On Lesvos Ortolan are rather scarce on passage , unlike their eastern ...

Didn't have much luck with photographing Bee-eaters this spring. This shot is a very heavy crop though I like the light, late afternoon , just before dusk at the Meladia Valley. Time for a brew.

Heading for dinner, saw this in pond beside road

We often go to Paleokastritsa in Corfu for a holiday, and had came across one of these at times there (although not always easy to find - several years with nothing...), so couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this sitting in a tree next to the house we were staying in.

Other than the pelicans, we also saw a very tame Red-crested Pochard presenting superb opportunities to photographers

Strictly speaking we don't do nesting birds, but we were far enough away viewing from the opposite side along a busy road , not to be a source of interference.

Since the season for Dalmatian Pelican photography is nearly here, I feel like I ought to show you a few more images before I head for new ones. These marvelous birds are getting their breeding colourful pouches in February so now comes the best time for their photography. This one was taken in...

The breeding season of Dalmatian Pelican approaches. Can't wait to see and photograph these amazing birds again. It is a shame that these birds are still killed for people to make bags from the birds' pouches. I suppose this could be a reason for the very high conservation priority status of...

View from the lower slopes of Acrocorinth, looking westward.

The Phaedriades, the 'shining' rocks at the foot of Mount Parnassus at the ancient sanctuary of Delphi, Greece.

View from Cape Sounion, looking towards Patroclus island February 2015. Beautiful weather! Shot on iphone.

After a lot of efforts.

Same area as was bulldozed a couple of weeks later,taking their nest site with it. Motive was financial, i.e.sale of top soil.

Following the photographing of these confiding birds in Lesvos, it was reported that a local farmer bulldozed their nest site, for the sale of top soil from the river bank in which they'd burrowed. If true this was both unnecessary and cruel as by waiting a couple of weeks, their young would...

As i walked up the lane from Faneromeni upper ford to do some business (never leave your camera in the car), my attention was drawn to what I thought was the call of the olive tree warbler. When I tried to find the bird in question (often a fruitless excerise in my experience) instead, low down...