Many
birders experience great excitement over the prospect of 'seawatching',
as seabird-watching is colloquially known as, and seldom miss
the opportunity to do it. It may be performed on a holiday ferry
crossing accompanied by the family or friends, by a chartered
pelagic tour with fellow birders, a hitch on a fishing vessel,
or from a headland on a windy day. Regardless of where it is
done, it is impossible to describe the feeling of excitement
and drama during a great seawatching day in words. You have
to experience it yourself! Furthermore, seawatching is –
for many keen birdwatchers – also coupled with the greatest
identification challenges in modern field ornithology! Add to
this the, often unpredictable, occurrence of seabirds as well
the difficulty to know in advance how many species or what numbers
you are going to see on a day at sea or at a coastal spot. Well,
I hope that you will find this web site covering a few selected
seawatching sites both enjoyable and useful!
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| A couple of lovely Striped
Dolphins – Stenella coeruleoalba – at
sea off Madeira. Photo: Luis
Dias, Madeira. |
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483
photos of 127 bird species!
6th September: Four new photos have been added to the
bird photo gallery today, which now contains 483 photos! Of
these two were new to the gallery (Black-tailed Godwit and the
first live Barn Owl). View
the photos here» |
Arctic
Norway in May 2008
Between 9 and 20 May 2008 we were two Swedish birding parties
that studied the northbound spring migration of waterfowls,
especially skuas and divers, at Slettnes lighthouse.It was cold
and a dramatic success at the sam time. I am working on the
new Slettnes website. In meantime you find a diary and nice
photos here» |
An
outstanding seawatching trip!
Between 5-28th October 2007 we were eight Swedish and
two French birders that visited N'Gor (the north-western tip
of the Cap Vert penisula) in Senegal and counted the southbound
passage of seabirds daily from the area. Besides seawatch from
Calao and Isle N'Gor we did two pelagics north off the Cap Vert
peninsula. In the meantime, when writing up the trip report
and sorting the photos, we could already present the results
from our very successfull trip as well as many photos. Read
more here» |
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