Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Friday, October 21, 2011

Monday, October 17, 2011

Just a few more from Portugal...




Mediterranean Gulls

Cory's Shearwater


Common Tern

Yellow-legged Gull

Short-toed Eagle

Sunday, October 09, 2011

An ugly spider


Anyone know what this chap is (from SW Portugal)? I suspect it may be Argiope lobata.

Avocet reflections

Greater Flamingos


Tavira


Salgado

Crested Lark, Salgado (digiscoped)



Cory's Shearwater in evening light

European Storm-petrel off Sagres


That is unless they have split these petrels further, and I'm missing something...

Short-toed Eagle



Luckily, a local birder (originally from the UK) gave us permission to walk 200m over public land to photograph this eagle in south-westernmost Portugal. I'll e-mail him to ask permission to write these words, shortly...
These were the last photographs before the 300mm Canon lens literally fell apart in my hand.