Water in the summer heats

I just want to make a little post about something very important in the summer. As you probably noticed the last few days were very hot and the incoming are going to be even hotter.Those weather conditions are very dangerous for our bird friends.

So this post is just a reminder for you to find few minutes and put water on your window or in the backyard. This can be lifesaving for the birds living around you home.

Picture-Google images.

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Black Stork /Ciconia nigra/ Live camera

Today a friend of mine sent me a link . The link is from a live camera and the camera is showing a Black stork nest with young storks inside. For me it was very interesting to watch them so I decided to share the link with you. Enjoy :)

The link for the Live Camera!

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Interesting birds in Bulgaria - Wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria)

It's time for another post about the interesting birds in Bulgaria.This time I will post about the Wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria). The reason for that is because this is one very interesting bird and I think that many people don't know about it. So I've decided to share some interesting information with you.

Another reason is the fact that this bird habitats the Belogradchik Rocks which are near my hometown Belogradchik.

The Wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria) is a small passerine bird found throughout the high mountains of Eurasia. It is the only member of the genus Tichodroma.

The Wallcreeper is a 15.5–17 centimetres (6.1–6.7 in) long bird, with a mass of 17–19 grams (0.60–0.67 oz). Its plumage is primarily blue-grey, with darker flight and tail feathers. Its most striking plumage feature, though, are its extraordinary crimson wings. Largely hidden when the wings are folded, this bright coloring covers most of the covert feathers, and the basal half of the primaries and secondaries.

A bird of the high mountains, the Wallcreeper breeds at elevations ranging between 1,000–3,000 metres (3,300–9,800 ft). It is largely resident across its range, but is known to move to lower elevations in winter, when it is occasionally found on buildings and in quarries. Birds have wintered as far afield as England and the Netherlands, where one spent two consecutive winters between 1989 and 1991 at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. The species is resident across much of the Himalayas, ranging across India, Nepal, Bhutan and parts of Tibet.

The Wallcreeper is an insectivore, feeding on terrestrial invertebrates—primarily insects and spiders—gleaned from rock faces. It sometimes also chases flying insects in short sallies from a rock wall perch. Feeding birds move across a cliff face in short flights and quick hops, often with their wings partially spread.

Pictures- wikipedia and Google images.

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Last Song for Migrating Birds - You have to read this

This is an article from Jonathan Franzen for National Geographic and I really think that more people need to read it .

"In a bird market in the Mediterranean tourist town of Marsa Matruh, Egypt, I was inspecting cages crowded with wild turtledoves and quail when one of the birdsellers saw the disapproval in my face and called out sarcastically, in Arabic: “You Americans feel bad about the birds, but you don’t feel bad about dropping bombs on someone’s homeland.”

I could have answered that it’s possible to feel bad about both birds and bombs, that two wrongs don’t make a right. But it seemed to me that the birdseller was saying something true about the problem of nature conservation in a world of human conflict, something not so easily refuted. He kissed his fingers to suggest how good the birds tasted, and I kept frowning at the cages.

To a visitor from North America,..."

Source - National Geographic

Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) nest with eggs

On my last trip to Veshtica my father showed me very interesting nest. It was a Blackcap nest with five eggs in it. Very interesting thing was the fact that both the male and the female were seen in the nest . I've managed to take pictures of the nest and the eggs when the parents weren't there and now I would like to share them with you.

The nest with the five eggs

As you can see the nest is not very high from the ground.

Great Tit (Parus Major) Breeding- Infographic

Today I made my first infographic about birds and I want to share it with you. It is about Great tit (Parus Major) and it describes the breeding process of that species.

I hope that you are going to like it and I will be happy to hear your opinion in the comments below .

Pictures for National Geographic

My brother sent me those amazing pictures of European green lizard / Lacerta viridis/. He made them with his cellphone ,but I think that some of them are quite amazing ,so I've decided to share them with you. I hope that you will like them.