I managed to photograph the Spotted Flycatcher during one of my „escapades” in search of the European Green Woodpecker. On suburban territories, used to human presence, it allowed me to photograph it from a few-meter distance. The Flycatcher weighs about a dozen plus grams, with a wingspan not exceeding 25 cm. It is smaller than a sparrow and incomparably rarer in terms of its availability to be photographed. This gallery is far from perfection. Photos with the sky in the background are of last resort and they are more like documentary pictures than ones that get imprinted in one’s memory. Well, everyone needs something to start from...
Last minute news 07/2014
The only one encounter, the right  time and place and the gallery of the Spotted Flycatcher has changed radically. It was unfortunate that it happened by a fairly busy road and I failed to record the voice of the bird. The new gallery is composed  mostly of the new pictures.
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Kazakhstan – 05/2024- introductory text – Black Lark
NEWS galery
BIRDS:
1.Black Lark(T). 2.White-winged lark(V). 3.Bimacula  ted lark. 4. Oriental Turtle-Dove. 5. Booted Warbler.(V) 6.Paddyfield Warbler(V). 7.Red-headed Bunting(V). 8.Terek Sandpiper. 9.Turkestan Shrike. 10.Macqueen's Bustard. 11.Magellanic Plover. 12.Sykes's Warbler(V). 13.Brown Dipper(T).14.Pallid Scops-Owl 15.Grey-necked Bunting. 16.Saxaul Sparrow(V) 17.White-winged Woodpecker(V). 18.Pale-backed Pigeon. 19.Hume's Whitethroat.
MAMMALS : 1.Great gerbil. 2.Goitered gazelle.
REPTILES : 1.Russian tortoise. 2.Steppe agama. 3.Secret toadhead agama.

CHANGES in Galleries:
BIRDS:
1.Black-bellied sandgrouse(V). 2.Pallas's gull(V). 3.Calandra Lark. 4.Lesser Grey Shrike (V). 5.Red-footed Falcon. 6. Eurasian Sparrowhawk. 7.Eurasian hobby. 8.Long-legged buzzard. 9.Marsh harrier. 10.Pallid Harrier. 11.Montagu's Harrier. 12.Black Kite. 13.Northern Wheatear. 14.Isabelline wheatear. 15.Pied Wheatear.16.Temminck's Stint. 17.Barn Swallow. 18.Blue Whistling-Thrush. 19.Rosy Starling(T,V). 20.Ruddy shelduck. 21.Demoiselle Crane. 22.Brown-necked Raven. 23.Eurasian Tree Sparrow. 24.Bluethroat. 25.Common Cuckoo. 26.Common Myna. 27.Spotted Flycatcher. 28.Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush. 29.White Wagtail. 30.Western Yellow Wagtail. 31.Citrine wagtail. 32.White-throated dipper. 33.Redstart. 34.Common Tern. 35.Caspian Tern. 36.White-winged Tern. 37.Black-tailed Godwit. 38.Greater Sand Plove. 39. Azure Tit. 40.Short-toed Lark. 41.Mediterranean Short-toed Lark. 42.Tawny Pipit. 43.Buff-browed Warbler. 44.Ortolan Bunting. 45.Eurasian skylark. 46.Crested Lark. 47.Siberian Stonechat. 48.Wood Sandpiper. 49.Caspian Gull. 50.Red-crested pochard. 51.House Sparrow. 52.White-tailed eagle. 53.Great Tit. 54.Western Jackdaw. 55.European Roller. 56.Egyptian vulture. 57.Chukar patridge.58.Shikra(V).

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Finland -06/2024- introduktory text – Eurasian eagle-owl
Changes in the galleries:
BIRDS:
1.Eurasian eagle-owl (T). 2.Bullfinch(T). 3.Eurasian Curlew(T). 4.White-tailed eagle. 5.Great Tit. 6.Northern lapwing. 7.Eurasian Siskin. 8.Great Spotted Woodpecker. 9.Common rosefinch. 10.European Greenfinch. 11.Common Crane. 12.Common Wood Pigeon. 13.Western Jackdaw 14.Common Blackbird. 15.Hooded Crow 16.Fieldfare. 17.Mute Swan 18.Black-legged kittiwake 19.Blue Tit 20.Spotted Flycatcher 21.Common Chiffchaff. 22.White Wagtail. 23.Arctic Tern  24.Eurasian Jay  25.Eurasian Magpie  26.Red-breasted Merganser. 27.Black-headed Gull 28.Yellowhammer. 29.The common chaffinch.
MAMMALS : Red squirrel

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