Birding Southern Oman 3rd-10th Dec 2019
Between Dec 3rd-10th Petteri Lehikoinen and myself were guiding a Finnish birding group around the town of Salalah in southern Oman. It was my 16th trip to the country since the first one 20 years ago, in Nov 1999. Still, after all these tours, the birding in Oman is still rewarding and always manages to produce [...]
Mallorca and the Spanish Pyrenees, Oct 20 - Nov 4, 2017
Back from a week on Mallorca with Eleonora’s Falcons and another week in the Pyrenees targeting Lammergeiers and Wallcreeper.
In August I suddenly realized that it’s been 10 years since my last visit to Mallorca. I have visited the island, just for Eleonora’s, in the Octobers of 1987, 1997 and 2007 and now, being 2017, I [...]