After hearing from friends that one of the rarest owls in the Western Palearctic was relatively easy to see in Southern Turkey, I decided to plan a trip over there with my family. My girlfriend is not a birder and my baby definitely isn’t (yet), so I booked us into a nice resort in Side, Antalya, which is within reach of the location of the owls, and is a nice place for them to stay while I slope off in the early mornings.
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Raptor Migration in Tarifa, Spain
Fresh back from a great 3 night birding trip to Southern Spain with mixed emotions. Happy that we saw a great suite of some top quality birds, but angry and sad as we were the victims of a robbery, and I’ve had all my camera gear stolen. Most photos in this blog are by my friends Martin Loftus and Dennis Atherton, who were with me on the trip.
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Re-Brand
Earlier this year I decided to have a rebrand, and change the name of my organisation from Trek-Eco Adventures to JK Wild Images. The reason for this was primarily to have a more personable approach. We felt that Trek Eco-Adventures sounded a bit too corporate, and after all, we are a small company that provides a much more personal service when it comes to wildlife tours, with a lot more attention to detail.
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Non stop birding in The Gambia
Here is my photographic trip report for the recent birding trip to Gambia I did. The aim was to see as many birds as possible in a 10 day trip up the river Gambia. To keep the report interesting I will limit repeating birds that have already been mentioned, instead I will include a full list of what was seen at each site via my eBird checklist for each particular location.
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Black-tailed Godwit flock at the visitor centre at Frampton Marsh RSPB
Late Autumn in Norfolk, England
Norfolk is without doubt one of my favourite places for wildlife in the UK. I particularly enjoy it in the winter where you can see huge flocks of waders over The Wash at places like Snettisham, Frampton Marshes and Titchwell.
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A very close encounter with lynx
I’ve had a lot of stand out moments in nature before but the experience we had with this Iberian lynx has just jumped right to the front of the queue. Here is an explanation of what happened: