Gallery – birds of Wales

I have already written about our trip to Wales in articles Puffins at Skomer Island and Gallery - United Kingdom; now I finally processed all the pictures of birds from Wales. Besides some other pictures of Auks from Skomer Island I also added some more pictures of gulls into the gallery and some Passerines too and also a few Waders...

Photo story – Crossbills invasion

This strange term is well known to the people in the areas where Crossbills are not very often seen through the year but appear in great amounts in certain time with good harvest of pine seeds in the coniferous forests. Although Crossbills are quite common birds in Norway, for me the last weekend was under the sign of my personal Crossbills invasion...

Gallery – United Kingdom

Jostedal in Autumn colours

The Jostedal valley, that borders the largest european mountain glacier Jostedalsbreen from Southeast is one of many beautiful places in Norway that are worth to visit. Although the main touristic season is on mainly during Summer months, the best season for photo-trip is by no doubts Autumn – thick fog is coming back to the valleys, streams and rivers fills up with water again and the trees change their colours to red and gold...

Gallery – Canada

The pictures from Canada presented on this website come from the 3-weks trip to British Columbia in July and beginning of August 2008. The very first part of our trip we spent in Vancouver and then headed to Vancouver Island with beautiful beaches near Tofino. After coming back to the mainland we drove inland and visited the most famous parks of tha Canadian part of Rocky Mountains – Kootenay, Banff, Yoho and Jasper National Parks. On the way back to Vancouver we had stopover in the Okanagan Lake area ...

Gallery – birds of Runde Island

Summer is the time of travelling and thus I was not able to process and upload all pictures of birds, which I made this year on Runde Island in Norway, unitl now....

Gallery – Australia

Pictures from Australia are from August 2006 when we spent about one week in Melbourne and then visited the best spots of Victoria during several days car trip. Although there was hot summer in Europe, the southern part of Australia was waking up from wintertime and the waters of Southern Ocean were also pretty cold. Australia is a land of contrasts, as we could feel during our drive from the Ocean shore inland towards the desert mining town Broken Hill...

Gallery – Czech Republic

Although I am filling up the picture gallery on this web continuously since the start of the website in May this year, not until recently I got to the processing of the pictures from different countries where I spent more or less time, stayed for few weeks or months or was just travelling through. Firstly introduced must be Czech Republic of course – my home country...

Photo story – fighting Kittiwakes

When we headed north to spend one weekend at Norwegian Runde Island at the end of June this year, I hardly could imagine I would see the best by watching the colony of Kitttiwakes (Rissa tridactyla). I was mainly looking forward to watching Atlantic Puffins (Fratercula arctica) and Great Skua (Stercorarius skua)...

Birds of British Columbia III – inland

Birds of British Columbia II – Vancouver Island

In the second part of the “Birds of British Columbia” story we will shortly look at Vancouver Island located NW from Vancouver. Although island it is almost the same size as is the Czech Republic. Like in the other parts of northern America we need a car to drive the large distances between interesting places. The only road that crosses the Island from east to west leads to the most touristic area of Vancouver Island around Tofino village with nearby Pacific Rim National park...

Birds of British Columbia I – Vancouver and surrounding

The half business half holiday trip during which we spent almost 4 weeks in British Columbia (Canada) was full of good opportunities for birdwatching in spite of the fact, that the end of July and beginning of August are not the best times for watching birds, especially given that the Autumn migration starts during August and reaches the peak during Autumn months...

Runde 2008 – delayed season

Four days of the last June weekend 2008 that we spent on the Norwegian Runde Island brought a lot of interesting but one little disappointment as well – the Atlantic Puffin that is the main attraction of the island were a bit delayed this year and so one of the main goal of our trip – to watch the puffins bringing small fishes from the sea to feed the chicks in the nest, has not been fulfilled...

Skomer Island – watching Puffins in the western Wales

The Skomer Island on the southwest of Wales can be easily compared with the norwegian Runde Island.  Besides similar extent and the fact, that in both cases the bird sanctuary is located off-shore on the island, both places have something more in common – most of the visitors are attracted by thousands of Atlantic puffins (Fratercula arctica) that can be watched and photographed from very short distance...