Monday 24 August 2015

Slovenia wildlife

Finally, to bring us up to date, here's a quick photographic gallery of some of the wildlife that I encountered on my Slovenian trip.

Keep an eye out because I will be running a tour to this beautiful country next spring.
 Song Thrush
 My first ever Nutcracker!!
 A Coal Tit with a weird tail
 A Brown Hare deep in the forest
 Fire-bellied Toad
 A Ruddy Darter?
 Red-backed Shrike
 Mallard family
 Honey Buzzard
 White Stork
 Black Redstart
 Brown Bear
 Cricket sp
Alpine Chough

Slovenia Bird List

Great Crested Grebe
Black-necked Grebe
Cormorant
Great Egret
Grey Heron
White Stork
Mallard
Griffon Vulture
Short-toed Eagle
Buzzard
Honey Buzzard
Sparrowhawk
Kestrel
Lesser Kestrel
Moorhen
Coot
Lapwing
Black-headed Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Rock/Feral Pigeon
Wood Pigeon
Ural Owl
Swift
Alpine Swift
((Great Spotted Woodpecker))
Middle Spotted Woodpecker
Sand Martin
Crag Martin
Swallow
House Martin
Water Pipit
White Wagtail
Grey Wagtail
((Wren))
Alpine Accentor
Robin
Black Redstart
Whinchat
Song Thrush
Mistle Thrush
Blackbird
Blackcap
((Great Reed Warbler))
((Chiffchaff))
((Firecrest))
Spotted Flycatcher
Great Tit
Coal Tit
Blue Tit
Crested Tit
Willow Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Nuthatch
Common Treecreeper
Red-backed Shrike
Magpie
Jay
Nutcracker
Hooded Crow
Raven
House Sparrow
Snowfinch
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Siskin
Serin
Bullfinch
((Hawfinch))
((Common Crossbill))

Yellowhammer

71 species
2 lifers 
((heard))

2 comments:

Margaret Birding For Pleasure said...

Looks like a great trip David.

Unknown said...

Nice. Where have you had Lesser Kestrel?