Just home from a week in Fuerteventura for my birthday. Many great birding moments, 5 lifers, but this has to go first. One of my best ever photos. Not a bird, but it was flying 12 feet out of the water 😳😳😳. A dolphin.
From this 2 day intensive birding trip to south Portugal I thought the Little Bittern would be my favourite. Then I got the Hoopoe. However, I ended the day with my first Bee-Eater. No contest, that’s the one 😎😎 ✅
Not a lifer, but definitely my favourite photo from Cancun Mexico. Little Blue Heron. First of all, in focus, wings & legs out, water droplets add to movement, and isolated well from the background.
Hispaniolan Lizard Cuckoo ✅. Not how I wanted to get a tick - dehydrated & lying in the road. I slowly rehydrated until it could run into the bushes and start recovering. Dominican Republic.
White fronted Amazon. Cancun Mexico. When you see a proper parrot like this in the wild, against a blue sky, not in a cage or zoo, it’s definitely a surreal sight.