Reporting from Poland

Stephen Menzie reports from a cold but bird-filled week in Eastern Poland:

Mid-May this year was the coldest for a quarter of a century here in Eastern Poland (temperatures reached a low of 2°C on our week-long tour, and we even experienced some snow flurries), while the winter had been the driest in living memory – some areas of the marsh were looking more like mid-winter than late spring, with stunted vegetation growth and very little green. It looked like birding was going to be a challenge – but, in the end, we finished the trip with a record-breaking total, catching up with several unexpected or usually hard-to-get species in the process.

(All photos by Stephen Menzie)