Three Rosy Bee-eaters sitting in the branches of a leafless tree. All are facing the camera. Two have their beaks open. Singing. Scientific Name: Merops malimbicus Conservation status: Least Concern

One Rosy Bee-eater is sitting in the branches of a leafless tree. The second bee-eater is flying in from the back with open wings. Scientific Name: Merops malimbicus Conservation status: Least Concern

A Rosy Bee-eaters sitting in the branches of a leafless tree. Looking towards the right. Scientific Name: Merops malimbicus Conservation status: Least Concern

3 Rosy Bee-eaters sat on a tree
1 flew away & then there were 2.

2 Rosy Bee-eaters sat on a tree
1 flew away & then there was 1.

1st time we went they were out. We returned the next day and they were there far away. We took some photos & made our way back.

#birds #Ghana #WillTravel4Birds

An African green pigeon and a Brown-cheeked Hornbill sitting on a tree branch high above, against a deep blue sky. African green pigeon - (Treron calvus) least concern but decreasing Brown-cheeked Hornbill - (Bycanistes cylindricus) vulnerable and decreasing

An African green pigeon and a Brown-cheeked Hornbill on a tree branch high above, against a deep blue sky. The pigeon is preparing to fly away. African green pigeon - (Treron calvus) least concern but decreasing Brown-cheeked Hornbill - (Bycanistes cylindricus) vulnerable and decreasing

A Brown-cheeked Hornbill male sitting on a tree branch high above, against a deep blue sky. The female Hornbill has just landed on the branch and is swinging herself up on it to perch. Brown-cheeked Hornbill - (Bycanistes cylindricus) vulnerable and decreasing

How about this for an Odd Couple? (still love that old serial!)
For #BirdOfTheDay theme #MixedPairs

P:S. the relationship didn't last long, as moments later, the lady Hornbill arrived :D

#WillTravel4Birds #Birds #Ghana #Thursday

A Greater Flamingo walks through some flowering Papyrus grass in Amboseli National Park. Sunshine falling from behind makes a soft orb frame for the bird.

A Cape teal swims in strong but not harsh sunlight in Amboseli National Park, Kenya

A Wood sandpiper all puffed up showing off it's beautiful plumage in good clear sunlight at Amboseli National Park, Kenya

A male Common Ostrich walks through the grass and shrub landscape of Amboseli National Park, Kenya. It's close to sunset and low backlight is almost silhouetting the bird in a golden halo.

I've been struggling with today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #PerfectLighting. What is the perfect light? Bright and strong. Illuminating every detail. Or is it some nature of light that makes the photograph 'special' somehow?
Here are both...

#Kenya #Birds #WillTravel4Birds #Light

Two Robins sitting on a pine tree. One is hidden by some pine needles, the other is fully visible and just about to fly away. Being highly territorial, at most times the Robin Redbreast or European Robin (Erithacus rubecula) is solitary but then in Spring they seek out partners. Conservation status: least concern

It's that special time of the year when wonderous things happen. Like seeing two #Robins together for the very first time in my life!!

#SpringTime #BirdlifeAustria #birds #WillTravel4Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Austria

An European Green Woodpecker seen sideways on the edge of the tree trunk. It is sitting crouched and fully alert. Looking upwards. Tree truck and branches can be seen close and in the distance around it. Scientific Name: Picus viridis Conservation status: Least Concern

All focus up and ahead.
The local European Green Woodpecker.
Its unmistakable call even has a special name 'yaffling', the birds sometimes called the Yaffle 😍

#EuropeanGreenWoodpecker #Austria #Woodpecker #birdphotography #BirdlifeAustria #CityBirds #BirdsSeenIN2026 #WillTravel4Birds

5 Rooks standing in various poses in a line on a flat dry grassed plain. The center two are fighting with their beaks. Scientific Name: Corvus frugilegus Conservation status: Least Concern

I will not talk politics online BUT considering all that's happening these days, the #Rooks are us as we all take sides.

'Lining up for the fight' is maybe my #BestOfTheMonth from February. Not much photography was done. Still editing Ghana.

#Hungary #WillTravel4Birds #BirdsSeenin2026

A White-tailed Eagle coming in to land with wings outstretched, surrounded by hooded crows that are flying off in all directions

Wings ahoy!

From #Hungary 's #Raptor weekend again for #BirdOfTheDay theme #WideOpenWings

A White-tailed Eagle and Hooded Crows

Scientific Name: Haliaeetus albicilla
Conservation status: Least Concern

#Birds #birdsSeenin2026 #WillTravel4Birds

A Mountain Wren sits on a wooden post ready to leap off.

A Mountain Wren sitting on some barbed wire in front of a field of high grass

A pensive looking Mountain Wren sitting on a piece of old wood

3 curiosities of a Mountain Wren for #WrensDay

Scientific Name: Troglodytes solstitialis
Conservation status: Least concern

#BirdOfTheDay #Colombia #WillTravel4Birds #bird

A Common Chiffchaff all fluffed up round on a branch. It's beak casting a shadow on it's chest. The background is soft shades of pastel yelow-greys. Scientific Name: Phylloscopus collybita Conservation status: Least concern

For #BirdOfTheDay theme #Borb, a Common Chiffchaff doing it's best.

#Bird #Austria #WillTravel4Birds #yellow

A Colombian chachalaca standing erect on a rock with it's head high showing it's red chin and full details of it's plumage.

Look at me! Look at me!!.... please 😁

A Colombian chachalaca ensuring it looks its best for todays #PowerPose theme in #BirdOfTheDay

(Ortalis columbiana)
Conservation status: Least Concern

#Colombia #WillTravel4Birds #birds #wildlifephotography #StandTall

The small Rufous-crowned Tody-Flycatcher sits on a tree branch before a blurred background of green. It has a bright yellow stomach and chest, white and black rings around its neck and chin, big black eyes and a striking red cap. Scientific Name: Poecilotriccus ruficeps Conservation status: Least Concern

Small but quite fierce with it's #RuffledFeathers

#BirdOfTheDay theme

A Rufous-crowned tody-flycatcher.

#Colombia #WillTravel4Birds #birds

A local attraction in town, the Mandarin Duck showing off it's colours in the shinning waters of the Mur. Scientific Name: Aix galericulata Conservation status: Least Concern

Neighborhood Celebrity

#BirdsInTheirElement #BirdOfTheDay
#Austria #Reflections #bird #WillTravel4Birds #bird #BirdsSeenin2026

A white-tailed Eagle standing on a bare tree branch with it's face towards the camera. It's one foot is lifted mid-step as it walks towards the right of the image.

Not to be left behind, a White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) doing a Marabou style #OneLeg to be part of todays #BirdoftheDay theme at the Hortobágyi National Park.

Conservation status: Least Concern

#WillTravel4Birds #birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #sidestep #Hungary

A Marabou Stork walking on a tree branch. It has one leg raised mid-step. Sunlight is falling from behind lighting it's face.

Asking to be part of #BirdoftheDay theme #OneLeg
A Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer) does a slow walk high in the tree at Lake Naivasha, #Kenya

Conservation status: Least Concern

#WillTravel4Birds

A Striated fieldwren standing on some branches. It is looking into the camera, though a little hidden by one branch and seems to be winking. Scientific Name: Calamanthus fuliginosus Conservation status: Least Concern

For #birdoftheday #cutelittle here's a golden fellow, the Striated fieldwren . Endemic to Australia they are generally difficult to spot . Not so our happy one, as it posed for a photo-session.

#birds #Australia #WillTRavel4Birds

A Cocoi heron walking on the water surface with it's wings outstretched above, as it prepares to take-off. It carries a fish in it's mouth. Scientific Name: Ardea cocoi Conservation Status: Least Concern

For todays #BirdOfTheDay theme #WingsOverWater a Cocoi heron in the Panthanal.

#Birds #Brazil #WalkOnWater #WillTravel4Birds #heron

A European Robin ready for take off with both wings outstretched up and legs midstep.

Flying off to bed to be up like a bright #Robin tomorrow :)

‪#BirdOfTheDay #BranchBirds #WillTravel4Birds #Austria #Bird

A Yellow-casqued Hornbill sitting on a tree top facing the sun. It has a cute reddish brown crest and a blue ring around it's eyes. A blue fob hangs on it's neck. Also listed as 'Vulnerable', these birds recognise alarm calls made by local monkeys to know when a predatory eagle is near. As with us, they are generally spotted in a distance, high up on the forest canopy. We were SO VERY LUCKY to have seen them! Scientific name: Ceratogymna elata Conservation status: Vulnerable

A pair of Yellow-casqued Hornbills sitting on a tree top facing the sun. The bird on top is looking up into the distance. The lower bird is showing it's casqued bill and looking down. Scientific name: Ceratogymna elata Conservation status: Vulnerable

A sunlit Yellow-casqued Hornbill flying downwards and away from a tree. Scientific name: Ceratogymna elata Conservation status: Vulnerable

If Brown-cheeked Hornbills are Pharaohs, this is the Court Jester.

Yellow-casqued Hornbills.
As with us, commonly spotted at a distance, high on the forest canopy.
We were SO VERY LUCKY to have seen them!

#hornbill #bird #ghana🇬🇭 #WillTravel4Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #BranchBird #BirdOfTheDay

A pair of Brown-cheeked Hornbills sitting on a tree branch in bright sunshine against a deep blue sky. The male has a large yellow, down-curving beak topped by a casque, a hollow structure attached to the upper mandible. The head, upper parts and underparts are black apart from the reddish-brown cheeks, and the white rump, belly and tail. The female is smaller but otherwise similar to the male apart from having a black beak and casque. These birds are vital for the spread of large forest seeds that smaller birds cannot. They also also catch insects and nest high in mature trees, over 20 meters above the forest floor. Widespread logging, for timber and agriculture, has deprived these bird of the habitat they need to for fruit and nesting locations. Scientific name: Bycanistes cylindricus Conservation status: Vulnerable

A pair of Brown-cheeked Hornbills.

Are they not beautiful? I keep comparing them with ancient Egyptian murals of the Pharaohs 😊

This was the only time across our entire trip that we saw them.

Conservation status: Vulnerable

#hornbill #birds #ghana #WillTravel4Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025

Close up of a Tui showing the bird from shoulders up. The top of it's beak is covered with pollen and a bright yellow. The birds other colours of blue-greens and shimmering greys shine in the sunshine.

A pretty picture, New Zealand's Tui for #BirdoftheDay theme #Portrait. The yellow on top of it's beak is pollen. All other colours its own.
Scientific Name: Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae
Conservation Status: Least Concern

#Tui #NewZealand #birds #WillTravel4Birds

A pair of Collored Doves sitting on a tree branch facing the camera but looking away from each other. Photograph is shot through a blurred green foreground of leaves. Behind also blurred is a close-up of a big tree. Scientific Name: Streptopelia decaocto Conservation status: Least Concern

A different mood from the Eagles and frenzied Cormorants, a sweet pair of Collared Doves for the #BirdOfTheDay alternate theme #Pigeons&Doves

#birds #nature #Italy #gentle #calm #Doves #WillTravel4Birds

Two White-tailed Eagles fighting mid-air. Both eagles have their wings outstretched. The one above is seen sideways and looking down. The bird below is with it's face towards the camera, looking up and trying to reach out to the bird above.

And then they fought!
Fought on land and in the air.
Fought over the smallest pieces of fish.

Scientific Name: Haliaeetus albicilla
Conservation status: Least Concern

#WhiteTailedEagle #Hungary #Raptors #birdphotography #WillTravel4Birds #Eagles #Friday #Fighting

A flock of Great Cormorants coming in to land on a river, seen through some blurred leaves. Scientific Name: Phalacrocorax carbo Conservation status: Least Concern

A group Great Cormorants fishing on a river. One bird has caught a big fish which it is holding in it's beak, preparing to fly off. 4 other birds are looking at it. Scientific Name: Phalacrocorax carbo Conservation status: Least Concern

A group of Great Cormorants fishing successfully in a river. Two hold fish in their beaks, one is diving into the wate. Three birds are looking at the others. Scientific Name: Phalacrocorax carbo Conservation status: Least Concern

Please see the first photograph large. It's a particular favourite I've wanted to share for long. A few moments later came the other 2 images.
For #BirdOfTheDay theme #DivingForFood.

#Cormorants #Austria #WillTravel4Birds #RiverLanding #Birds #Nature #Friday is for #Fishing

A White-tailed Eagle in flight facing the camera head on. It's wings are half opened forming a circular frame around its face. The background shows a blurred sky. Scientific Name: Haliaeetus albicilla Conservation status: Least Concern

Full frontal and mighty.
This one is ringed. The cool bracelet it wears on it's right leg says it is from Budapest.

#WhiteTailedEagle #Hungary #Eagle #Raptors #birds #WillTravel4Birds #BirdsSeenin2026

A white tailed eagle walking on a flat grassy field, with wings outstretched. Scientific Name: Haliaeetus albicilla Conservation status: Least Concern #WhiteTailedEagle

A white tailed eagle walking on a flat grassy field, with wings outstretched. Scientific Name: Haliaeetus albicilla Conservation status: Least Concern #WhiteTailedEagle

A white tailed eagle looking at some food in the grass, on a flat grassy field, with wings outstretched. Scientific Name: Haliaeetus albicilla Conservation status: Least Concern #WhiteTailedEagle

A white tailed eagle looking at some food in the grass, on a flat grassy field, with wings outstretched. Scientific Name: Haliaeetus albicilla Conservation status: Least Concern #WhiteTailedEagle

We'd gotten to the hide in dark. The mighty White-tailed Eagle landed at first light, focused on the fish, laid out for it.

Talk of on-time guests!! Though actually we were the visitors and they, the locals!

#Hungary #Eagle #birds #WillTravel4Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026

Two people sitting in a hide. The woman is smiling & waving at the camera.

5.30am. in position.
Good morning people & birds!

#willtravel4birds #hidephotography

In Hungary hoping to photograph raptors. Please wish us luck!

#birdphotography #birdingweekend #willtravel4birds

A pair of White-throated Bee-eaters sitting on a electricity line. One bird has a bee in it's beak that it is giving to the other. Scientific Name: Merops albicollis Conservation status: Least Concern

A pair of White-throated Bee-eaters sitting on a electricity line. One bird has a bee in it's beak that it is giving to the other. Scientific Name: Merops albicollis Conservation status: Least Concern

A pair of White-throated Bee-eaters sitting on a electricity line. One bird has a bee in it's beak that it is giving to the other. Scientific Name: Merops albicollis Conservation status: Least Concern

A pair of White-throated Bee-eaters sitting on a electricity line. One bird has a bee in it's beak that it is giving to the other. Scientific Name: Merops albicollis Conservation status: Least Concern

The Transfer.

Was it a parent or was it a loving partner? I can't tell but it was a sweet moment to see and now to share with you.

#WhiteThroatedBeeEater

#Ghana #AnkasaForestReserve #beeEater #birdphotography #WillTravel4Birds #sharing #GiveAndTake #ebird #birdlife #BirdsSeenIn2026

A Black-headed Paradise Flycatcher sitting on a leaf stalk looking down. Scientific Name: Terpsiphone rufiventer Conservation Status: least concern #Ghana #AnkasaForestReserve #RedBelliedParadiseFlycatcher #BlackHeadedParadiseFlycatcher #paradiseflycatcher #birdphotography #WillTravel4Birds #Orange #ebird #birdlife

A Black-headed Paradise Flycatcher with it's beak open, sitting on a plant looking sideways. Scientific Name: Terpsiphone rufiventer Conservation Status: least concern #Ghana #AnkasaForestReserve #RedBelliedParadiseFlycatcher #BlackHeadedParadiseFlycatcher #paradiseflycatcher #birdphotography #WillTravel4Birds #Orange #ebird #birdlife

Two Black-headed Paradise Flycatchers with it's beak open, sitting on a branch facing away from the camera though you can see their faces. One of the birds has an insect in it's beak. Scientific Name: Terpsiphone rufiventer Conservation Status: least concern #Ghana #AnkasaForestReserve #RedBelliedParadiseFlycatcher #BlackHeadedParadiseFlycatcher #paradiseflycatcher #birdphotography #WillTravel4Birds #Orange #ebird #birdlife

Orange for today with these Black-headed Paradise-Flycatchers.

While seen numerous times this was the only time I got some photographs.

Could these might be hybrids with African paradise flycatchers because of no white bars on their wings?

#Birds #WillTravel4Birds #Ghana #BirdsSeenIn2026

Head and shoulder image of a Common Ostrich looking straight into the camera. The background shows a muted and blurred, rain speckled grassland. Scientific Name : Struthio camelus Conservation Status: Least Concern

A Common Ostrich stretching out it's long neck to eat some tall grass. The background shows a muted and blurred, rain speckled grassland. Scientific Name : Struthio camelus Conservation Status: Least Concern

'What's this theme of #LongNecks I hear?' Asked this Common Ostrich, as it proceeded to put the very same to good use.

From a very rainy weekend in #SouthAfrica some years ago.

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #WillTravel4Birds #Wildlifephotography