ZOOTHERA BIRDING BLOG

  We packed up and left the rather drab building that had pretensions of a hotel and drove for about an hour to a nice valley with a few hou...

  We left at 6am and drove for 20 minutes to the narrow valley we visited yesterday (2200m). The sun was just starting to creep over the sur...

  Took the early morning flight to Al Baha, where a surprisingly quick car rental procedure saw us on the road for 50 minutes to Al Khaira F...

  At 9am i'd been awake 5.5 hours!! And boy it felt like it, but the excitement of birding in the desert was exhilarating. Maybe 20+ Gre...

  I had the opportunity to visit Al Hai'ir this afternoon after collecting our rental car. It's only an hour from the hotel in Riyad...

 It's a 'chicken & egg' scenario with regards to booking a cruise and then flights isn't it? Should I have done it the o...

 It was off. It was on and then off again. And today it's definitely on as we've booked the cruise! Woohoo!! So 22nd June we are off...

  Well Japan will have to wait for a bit, so onwards with the plan for 2024. It's just over 3 weeks until i'm off to Saudi Arabia fo...

  It's always the same when I return from a trip, after the jet lag hits and the tiredness dissipates. That anti-climatic feeling. The b...

The main purpose of my visit to Patagonia in southern Argentina was to see Hooded Grebe . The medium to long-term picture for this species i...