Cannundrums

On July 3rd with Spyros Skareas, my guide, we were in the Spata Fields in Attica, Greece, near Athens International Airport. He saw several ...

On July 3 of this year we were just finishing our Viking Cruise which started in Istanbul and ended in Athens. Our last day, before flying h...

I first saw a yellow-legged gull in the Sado Estuary near Lisbon, Portugal on July 2, 2022 ( post on March 30, 2026 ) while taking a ferry f...

After visiting Buyukcekmeca Lake my guide, Dogan Bilge, took me to the 25 acre Yildiz Park in Istanbul. It used to be part of the imperial g...

Another new bird I saw near Buyukcekmeca Lake near Istanbul was a pygmy cormorant. It was near the stream with other cormorants, likely grea...

While near a stream which flows into Lake Buyukcekmeca near Istanbul I was with my birding guide, Dogan Bilge, as we watched some birds flyi...

My favorite bird from our recent trip to Turkey and Greece was the black-headed bunting, a lifer for me. I was at an inlet stream to Lake Bu...