Gallicissa: August 2012

10,000 Birds

The Numbers Game - Should you ever come to bird in central Mexico, and you are only interested in our wonderful endemics, feel free to come in the summer. It’s green, and t...
11 hours ago
Another Bird Blog

A Touch Of Frost - Most unusual - there was hint of the white stuff this morning when Andy and I met up at Gulf Lane at 0830. The temperature gauge read 1° but it felt warmer...
1 day ago
Catalogue of Organisms

The Spread of Carrots - Carrots are one of the staple vegetables in this part of the world as well as in a great many others. Indeed, Wikipedia informs us that about forty million...
2 days ago
The Brownstone Birding Blog

I Spent The Morning Admiring Rocks - I went out to a place called Seven Falls State Park looking for a reported rare bird which I wasn't able to find. What I did find during my morning hike ...
2 days ago
A DC Birding Blog

Loose Feathers #777 - *Song Sparrow / my photo* Birds and birding news - Beach-nesting birds in North Carolina had a successful breeding season. - A new study found that...
5 days ago
Madras Ramblings

Beach walks - Creamy mallows, and blushing Ipomoeas. Blue skies and a bright sun. The waters glimmer and shimmer. I look hopefully. No dolphins sighted. But hello,...
1 week ago
The Green Ogre - a green blog from India

Stargazing on the Appalachian Trail - Recounting a quest for the Milky Way along the Appalachian Trail in August The Green Ogre - Nature's layers unraveled To read more, visit The Green Ogre in...
1 month ago
Vickie Henderson Art

Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Red-breasted Nuthatches and a Hairy Woodpecker! - Juvenile Rose-breasted Grosbeak watercolor sketch by Vickie Henderson For those of us who love birds and love to watch them, we have a ready-made source o...
1 month ago
The Natural Stone

Red-eyed Vireo, Kenidjack Valley, Cornwall - A short clip of Red-eyed Vireo. A first for me anywhere on planet earth. I was incredibly lucky to be in the right place at the right time. A bird I've w...
1 month ago
Birders Of Sabah Borneo Island

Tempasuk Paddy Fields, Kota Belud Update - 30th September 2020 Below is the list of waterbirds seen at the above in the early migratory season together with Oliver: - Great Egret - Inter...
2 months ago
Birdfreak.com

American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains - Dan Flores’s American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains is a natural history of six iconic animals species. These include bison, prongh...
2 months ago
Birds and Nature Photography - by Tabib

Birding during COVID-19 Pandemic - Birding at my backyard is a solo activity , that don't involve large crowd gathering. Friday, 13 Mar 2020, 10:23 PM MYT - Malaysia positive cases = 197 case...
8 months ago
Hakodate Birding

The Last Post - So this is the end: my last ever post on this blog. My new blog is here After almost exactly 12 years I've decided to wind up this blog. There are vari...
1 year ago
The Urban Gardener

October in the garden - [image: The Urban Gardener | Dendrobium Orchid] Come October and a gardener's mind turns to things colourful and bountiful. My garden is flourishing in a gi...
2 years ago
Kathie's Birds

Waiting for Snow - Tufted Titmouse 2-6-18 On this gray winter's morning I sit here awaiting the next winter storm. We have been in a pattern of snow, warming rain, melt the s...
2 years ago
Of Pies and Birds

Cock of the Blue Rock - Watching a Blue Rock Thrush on 1980s housing estate in the pretty Cotswold town of Stow on the Wold on the 28th December wasn't where I expected to be spen...
3 years ago
Amazing Borneo

Kinabalu Crested Dragon (Hypsicalotes kinabaluensis) - I did not pay much attention to my blog for the longest of time. Neither did I spend much of my time birding. However, I did go to some parts of Indonesia...
3 years ago
Ecobirder

Happy Earthday - [image: Bard Owl Chick] Here is wishing everyone a happy Earth Day on this the 10th anniversary of the Ecobirder blog.
3 years ago
ACBWildlife's Blog

Take Part in The RSPB Big Wild Sleepout! - This month the RSPB are encouraging us all to swap our comfortable homes for nature’s home for a night and discover a secret world of wildlife by taking pa...
4 years ago
Susan Gets Native

A tiny voice - I haven't posted anything here for nearly three years. This blog used to be my daily journal, my far-reaching arms to hold close to my friends. Facebook ...
4 years ago
Earth, Wind & Water

An ending...a continuation...a beginning - I've always hated when blogs I love just stop dead. I find myself wondering what happened to the blogger. Did they die suddenly? were they taken ill or hea...
4 years ago
BirdBlog

Adios muchachos - [image: DSCN2870.JPG]
6 years ago
BirdingGirl

Killdeer Chick in Yellowstone National Park - These were taken at West Thumb Geyser Basis, along the beach. It was really cool to get to watch these little chicks up close and personal. I had never see...
6 years ago
Sri Lanka Birds

World Migratory Bird Day - 11-12 May 2013 - *"Networking for Migratory Birds"* *For more information visit www.worldmigratorybirdday.org*
7 years ago
Off the beaten Track

Photo of the Week (10/03/2012): Safety Stop - For the beginner diver this is one of the most discomfiting times of a dive, the safety stop, 3 minutes at 5 meters with the aim of eliminating microbubbl...
8 years ago
Search and Serendipity

Painted Redstart in Ocean Springs, Mississippi! - On Jan. 5, Nancy Madden found a *Painted Redstart* just east of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, on the Jackson County Christmas Bird Count. The bird has been...
8 years ago
Birding Kuwait

Twitching a rarity - Week 40 - 08 October 2011, Pivot Fields There is nothing worse than getting news of a first and national rarity whilst you are away on a business trip, so...
9 years ago
Peregrine's Bird Blog

A Fabulous Day on the Saltee Islands off Co.Wexford - * Click on any image to see larger file in seperate window * I think the Saltee Islands off the coast of Co.Wexford must be one of Irelands greatest wi...
9 years ago
Gossamer Tapestry

IBCM V - Lake Skinner and the Quino Checkerspot - Wednesday was the final day of the IBCM California workshop. The weather forecast had been marginal, however we woke to a gloriously sunny day as we heade...
9 years ago
Reconciliation Ecology

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Biodiversity of Sri Lanka

Mexican wild petunia/Desert petunia (Ruellia simplex) - An introduced herb or subshrub native to *Mexico *and *South America*. Cultivated in home gardens and occasionally escaped and naturalized.
3 days ago
Dev Wijewardane Photography

The Herd - Kala Wewa, Sri Lanka - We watched these elephants having a bath and rolling around at the waterhole for a few hours and they provided us with plenty of photographic opportunit...
2 weeks ago
London, Lanka and drums

I'm No Dog Hater... - ..but it's the owners who sometimes get on my wick. So I'd arranged to go out with my mate P the other evening. I've known him for years and I suppose I'd...
1 year ago
Good Times

Those not-so-fab "Mom" days... - Ain't no shame momma. Today was one of those mornings. I woke up to a shrill little "YEAAAAAAAAAKKKKKGURGLE" in my ear. LO (little one) was wedged between ...
4 years ago

Amila Salgado

Amila Suwa: Colombo, Sri Lanka; I am a naturalist guide specializing in bird watching and wildlife tours. I have keen interests in Theravada Buddhism and Vedic Astrology. I became a born-again Buddhist in October, 2012 after listening to bhikku Most Venerable Waharaka Abhayaratanalanka--who attained the Supreme Bliss of Nibbana in February, 2017. I studied at St. Peter's College, Colombo 4.

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