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Australia surprised me many times with the wealth of fauna and flora or broad areas so that it makes me feel  I have to come back there. Meeting with the Sharp-tailed sandpiper was another nice surprise. When we were driving almost the whole day through the bush we passed at most some small ponds, lakes, but more often we saw kangaroos and parrots than a representative of waterfowl. And suddenly came out a large lake where stilts and sandpipers were feeding on the shore, and in the distance we could see another flocks of waterfowl.

Hummingbirds-text common to species photographed in Ecuador

Cuba-03/2019
Last minute news- Dominican Republic – 11/2021

Sad but true, one cannot succeed in everything. Although Johan and I saw the short-eared owl three times, we failed to take one good picture of this bird. I’ve added a few documentary photos in the start-up gallery, rather as a memento of my first encounter with this species and for the reason that it’s the only predator in Iceland which I managed to see and photograph. I also saw some white-tailed eagles’ nests but the distance was so large that even with the use of converters I managed to take some very poor quality, documentary pictures.

One short encounter with a greater short-toed lark initializes a gallery of this species on my website. Coming back from an encounter with the blue rock thrush I saw a greater short-toed lark feeding on a field. As befits a bird on Malta it was very skittish and kept a substantial distance. It is a pity, as it is hardly possible to encounter this bird in Poland as it is a very rare guest in our country. It occurs in southern Europe, where it lives on open agricultural areas.
Last minute news-03/2023-Morocco

Well, I imagined my first encounter with the short-toed snake eagle quite differently. The distance was so great that the 600 millimeter lens with twice converter could not make it and the images were heavily cropped. What is more this steel structure of high-voltage net was not the best background for the presentation of this beautiful bird.  When I tried to reduce the distance of several meters the result was that the bird flew away.