Zootherabirding

Shortly after 5am we were driving along quiet roads towards an area known as The Zaers, on our quest for another tricky WP species – Double-spurred Spurfowl. An hour later we were walking amidst an area of rolling hills covered in scrub, where both Short-toed and Booted Eagles were seen. It was pretty cool thi...

Well this was it. THE DAY. Our date with destiny and search for one of the Holy Grail birds of the WP…. Small Buttonquail. Getting here at first light gave us our best shot at nailing it….. To cut a long and very tedious story very short, after a combined total of 12 + hours spent over 2 days, we had a 6 second flight view of a bird that had b...

We had a late breakfast before going to look for an Eurasian Wryneck that Steve & Andy had found earlier, but for most of us it was just a voice in the distance. However, a Common Whitethroat was a trip tick and we saw a few more Cirl Buntings before heading off towards Bastia. At Etang de Biguglia we spen...

We had a walk around the grounds before breakfast, seeing a brief Moltoni’s Warbler, Sardinian Warbler, Eurasian Hoopoe, Italian Sparrow & Cirl Bunting. After breakfast we drove up into the mountains to a different area in the forlorn hope of seeing Lammergeier. Sadly nothing doing wi...

 Well after Egypt it was Corsica and some more Western Palearctic targeted birding. Love it..!!

The group arrived around midday and we were soon on our way along the country lanes around the back of the airport. I was hoping to find a Red-footed Falcon, a few of which had been seen migrating over the past few days. Alas, no falcons but we still enjoyed ...