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Spotty Beetles
United Kingdom
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2022
A couple who found solace in nature. Bugs, birds & more from our back garden to the world.
Birding in Kenya, February 2024, part 3: Kakamega Forest and Lake Victoria
Birding in Kenya, our third destination was Kakamega Forest. Many great species, but the thick vegetation made it difficult to see and photograph them. After that we headed to Kisumu for a boat trip on Lake Victoria, to find the papyrus specialists.
We travelled with Cisticola Tours, our guide Simon and driver/guide Winston helped us see many specialities and plenty of our targets.
We can't always get photos of every species - our style is "birding with a camera" rather than dedicated photography. We try to show our favourite photos - sometimes a good photo of a common bird, sometimes a good bird even if the photo isn't so great.
We travelled with Cisticola Tours, our guide Simon and driver/guide Winston helped us see many specialities and plenty of our targets.
We can't always get photos of every species - our style is "birding with a camera" rather than dedicated photography. We try to show our favourite photos - sometimes a good photo of a common bird, sometimes a good bird even if the photo isn't so great.
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Birding in Kenya, February 2024, part 2: Lake Baringo
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Birding in Kenya, our second destination was the Great Rift Valley, specifically Lake Baringo. We travelled with Cisticola Tours, our guide Simon and driver/guide Winston helped us see many specialities and plenty of our targets. We can't always get photos of every species - our style is "birding with a camera" rather than dedicated photography. We try to show our favourite photos - sometimes a...
Birding in Kenya, February 2024, part 1: Kinangop, Aberdare, Mt. Kenya
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Birding in Kenya, our first day was spent driving from Nairobi to Mount Kenya, via the Kinangop Plateau and Aberdare National Park. We travelled with Cisticola Tours, our guide Simon and driver/guide Winston helped us see many specialities and plenty of our targets. We could probably have done with an extra day in Mt. Kenya, there was so much to see. We can't always get photos of every species ...
Planthoppers and other insects from Ghana. Entomology
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Insects from Ghana. Planthoppers and other bugs seen in 2023 in Ghana on a birding trip. Kakum National Parka and Ankasa.
Shieldbugs, Assassin bugs and beetles.
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Hemiptera. Stink bugs. Pentatomidae. Reduviidae. Beetles. Coleoptera. All seen in Kakum National Park and Ankasa. We booked a birding trip with Ashanti African tours.
Birding in Colombia, November 2023, part 3: Montezuma Lodge, Tatama National Park
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Birding in Colombia, the third and final part of our trip, to Montezuma Rainforest Lodge in Tatama National Park. It was worth spending 3 days here, in the Choco bioregion, where there are many endemic and near-endemic species. Our guide was Carlos Delgado and we also had local guide Fernando. In this site alone, we saw 154 species, increasing our trip total to 380 species. We did even better w...
Beetles. Summer 2023 in Ghana
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We booked a birding trip with Ashanti African tours. They do butterfly trips as well. Philip, who was our birding guide, is very experienced in both. The beetles seen here are from Kakum National Park and Ankasa. Highly recommended.
Birding in Colombia, November 2023, part 2: Jardin, Manizales, Pereira
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Birding in Colombia, the second part of our trip. We flew to Medellin and drove all the way to Pereira, via Jardin and Manizales. Our guide for this part was Carlos Delgado and in this portion of the trip we increased our list to 284 species, of which 116 were lifers. We can't always get photos of every species - our style is "birding with a camera" rather than dedicated photography. We try to ...
Butterflies ( Lepidoptera ) in Ghana. Seen in Summer 2023
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We booked a birding trip with Ashanti African tours. They do butterfly trips as well. Philip, who was our birding guide, is very experienced in both. The butterflies seen here are from Kakum National Park and Ankasa. Highly recommended.
Birding in Colombia, November 2023, part 1: Around Bogota
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Birding in Colombia, the first part of our trip was 4 days around the Bogota area. We explore Chingaza, Chicaque, Laguna de Tabacal and Sumapaz. Also a couple of hummingbird gardens: Observatorio de Colibríes, and Jardín Encantado, and La Florida park in Bogota. Our guide in the Bogota area was Johan Florez. We saw 168 species in these 4 days, of which 61 were lifers, and some were extremely ra...
Moths ( Lepidoptera ) from Ghana
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Moths seen in Ghana on a birding trip with Ashanti African tours. Brilliant company and guide. Philip was knowledgeable and friendly and can identify butterflies. Highly recommended.
Spiders and Flies- Ghana 2023
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This was a birding trip with Ashanti African tours. Our guide Philip is very knowledgeable and friendly. Highly recommended. Pictures and films taken in Kakum National Park and Ankasa. We saw many amazing and unusual insects. Here is a small sample. Hope you enjoy it.
Bugs from Hungary
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More bugs from Hungary in Tokaj and Hortobagy regions.It was a birding trip with Hungarianbirdwatching.com. Amazing company and guides. We took the opportunity to see not only birds :)
Caterpillars from Hungary
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Seen in Summer 2023 in the regions of Tokaj and Hortobagy. We would recommend Hungary for birds, bugs and food. Heavenly experience.
Birding in Ghana, September 2023
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Birding in Ghana, we explore Kakum National Park, Ankasa Reserve, and "Picathartes Village" near Kumasi, in September 2023. Organised by Ashanti African Tours ashantiafricantours.com, our guide Philip showed us 207 species in 7 days, of which 107 were lifers. Unfortunately many of them were hard or impossible to photograph in the dense forest. We can't always get photos of every species - our s...
Spiders and Flies or prey and predator. Hungary
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Spiders and Flies or prey and predator. Hungary
Birding in Northern India, February 2020
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Birding in Northern India, February 2020
Bugs and Insects in the UK in early Spring
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Bugs and Insects in the UK in early Spring
hello new friend!
Thanks for coming
Wow amazing images! The crab at 2:10 is called a Sally Lightfoot Crab
Thank you for lovely comment and identification.
Superb Bird Watching
It was indeed. Thank you
So many lovely clips and photos! Greetings from a Swedish youtuber! 🇸🇪
Thank you very much!
Your presentation is brilliant, I like the birds, a subscription from me +604 🔔 & Like 30 👍, keep it up , have a nice days ♻️✅🌳
Thank you so much 👍
Nice and so beautiful video
Thank you so much
Beautiful various birds. Great video. I enjoyed fantastic birds. Greetings.
Glad you enjoyed it
Amazing compilation! Really enjoyed your video!
Thank you for visiting
Very nice video! Could you tell me where the bee-eater hide is?
Thank you! The hide is right here: maps.app.goo.gl/kfMFUezkFbkHGm8f9 but I'm not sure about the ownership / access procedure since it was all arranged by our guide.
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WoW. You have seen lots of beautiful birds. As always, beautiful beautiful video. Thank you for sharing
Many thanks Doan
Thank you. Sad part I seem to be forgetting the names in my mother tongue 😢😢
May be it is an opportunity to look the names up😀. Thank you for visiting
wow… amazing bird , make me dream to birding in Kenya. I am look forward for thailand
Wish you happy birding. Thank you dor your comment
Hi, I'm a new friend here. A birder from Singapore. Thanks for sharing this wonder bird observation footage. A big LIKE from me. Happy birding!!! 👍🔔
Thank you very much for your comment. Welcome new friend😀
Wow! So many beautiful species! Amazing all the beauties that you have seen! Thanks for this wonderful sharing👍🌞
Thank you. We are glad you enjoyed it
I love the style of "Birding with a Camera" - nature centric.
Many interesting observations. Papyrus gonolek very beautiful bird, and two species of kingfishers in one tree. Also interesting looking hoopoe, how different from this in Europe which I know. 👍 It was very interesting to watch. Best wishes!
The diversity is astonishing. We are glad you enjoyed it
Great work as usual. And my word, such beautiful birds ❤.
We are glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for sharing this awesome birding trip 😊
We are glad you enjoyed the video
Very beautiful observations! So coloutful birds :) 👍 Warm greetings!
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oh my goodness that crimson mantled woodpecker , hope Columbia was good i would be a bit nervous going there
It was great. It is always better to go with a guide or group but the areas were safe
Amazing video, thanks! Use it to organize a trip myself. Can I ask though if you could put all the locations in chronological order in the comments? Some are very hard to spell 😅
Hi, this is pretty much our itinerary, for the Cusco part at least: www.amazonbirding.com/birding-southern-peru It was quite fast paced to fit it all in, but well worth it.
Awesome & so lovely video. Thanks for sharing & big like
Thank you very much
My friend! Great sharing~ absolutely love all the content your produce! Keep it up at all costs😀😀
We are trying. Thank you for your encouraging words
Hello,a very nice movie of you and must have been a fantastic experience !! Great images of the rich birdlife there and so many species i have never seen.Greetings Gijs
Thank you Gijs as always for your lovely comments
Nice that you got pictures of the antpitta. When I was in Carara we could hear one singing but it never came close enough for us to see it.
It took a bit of tracking down but we were lucky to get great views!
Crrazy when they migrate many miles
I love birds
Amazing birds very interesting, I haven't seen some of those colorful birds in person thanks for sharing.
Thank you. We are glad you enjoyed it
Wow... different types of beautiful birds, thanks for sharing.
Thank you very nuch
Nice photos and beautiful birds, I would like to visit Costa Rica soon, which location should I go ? Thanks for your sharing.
Sorry for the late reply, we've been out in the field! One great thing about Costa Rica is you really can't go wrong. If you like feeders and close-up birds then there's Cinchona, Miriam's and Paraiso Quetzel. If you like natural surroundings then La Selva, Tortoguero and Carara. Then there's places like Arenal and Las Cruces that have both. And all these places are only a few hours apart!
Thank you for all your great videos. We are heading to Colombia later this year, hopefully get some great footage as you have.
Thank you for your lovely comment. Hope you get all your target birds
Great video(s) and I am using them to study for my self-guided trip in Peru for 2025. There are two birds that you might double check for ID...Paramo Pipit looks like a female Plumbeous/Ash-breasted Sierra Finch and the Pardodi's Hemispingus looks like a Citrine Warbler. Incredible photos and videos....thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you for visiting. We will review the birds' id.
Insane luck to get the dusky starfrontlet!
We hit the jackpot there. We were just about to leave
Wow, so many species, specially the owls 😊 Thanks for sharing your wonderful images😊
Thank you too!
So many beautiful birds. Love them all, specially owls. Thank you for sharing your amazing video
Thank you for your lovely commen
It was interesting to watch. Beautiful birds. 👍 Warm greetings!
Many thanks
Wow! Amazing birds
Thank you very much for visiting
I know almost nothing about African birds so that was educational, and fun. Oh, I loved the music!! 🎶. Looks like a fantastic place to bird.
We are glad you enjoyed it. Highly recommended. The music was a recording a local tribe performing a ceremonisl song.
Hello,a lot of names i never heard of!! I was in Aberdare 18 years ago and wasn't a birder at that time.Great images and ofcourse a wonderful experience there!!! Greetings Gijs
Glad you enjoyed it
Wow ! Awsome video! All those wonderful and special species that you can only see in the african continent😮😮Really amazing captures 😊
Thank you so much 😀
It was wonderful to watch all these species 👍 Fantastic footage! Warm greetings!
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for visitng
Amazing footage. Sooo many beautiful species. Thank you for sharing your experience with us. 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you Doan
Hello,woww.....really a wonderful movie of so many diifferent and beautiful colored birds!!! Excellent images..... Greetings Gijs
Thank you Gijs and Happy Easter
Just earned yourself another subscriber. Great video! I am a nature enthusiast from South Africa (Used t work as a Game Ranger, now work as a Biology teacher). I will be traveling to Peru in July with a group of learners. We will also be going to Machu Picchu and end in the Amazon. The birdwatcher in me was drooling over your amazing sightings! Will definitely be following your next adventures.
Thank you for your lovely comment. Peru is amazing. Such a vast country. We are planning to go again. We only saw a fraction of what it has to offer. The lek was absolutely wonderful. Enjoy your trip
Love the peacock fly. Like always, very nice capture. Thank you for sharing
Many thanks
Interesting looking insects 👍 Best wishes to you!
One more fascinating collection to your portfolio 😊 Thanks for sharing 😊
Thank you kindly!
Thank you for sharing! I’m from Lima, Peru and you just reminded me how beautiful it is what we have there 🙏🏼☝️🥰
My pleasure 😊
500 ok new friend 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you very much.Welcome to our channel.