Birds

Birds

I have always found birds very interesting. The nice thing about birds is that they can fly! That means that it is possible to find different birds at different times of the year. That makes looking for birds exciting, especially in the spring or autumn. The best thing is of course to find a rare bird yourself and make the entire birding community of the Netherlands travel to see it. Driving to a bird found by someone else, I do as well, otherwise you are just going to miss out on too much nice birds! In this way it’s possible to see birds in my home country that I would normally need to travel thousands of kilometres for to see.

When I’m abroad I still look for birds, but then it often takes a bit of a backseat in regard to a certain mammal (cat) that I want to see. Of course there are also certain birds that I really want to see, so I definitely do not rule out the possibility that I will travel to an area in the future just for a special bird, for example a picahartes! When I see a bird, I try to photograph it as well as I can, with varying degrees of success.

Below is a selection of the pictures I liked the most. They are arranged chronologically from newest to oldest. The stories behind these pictures can be read in the blog.