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WINGS Birding Tours – Photo Gallery

Belarus

The quiet willow scrub off a meandering backwater will bring us our first quintessential Belarussian bird, the beautiful Azure Tit. Nearby, Wrynecks call and feed busily as they search for ants… …the ‘crexxing’ call of the Corncrake echoes around the meadows… …and at the wetlands, spring is well underway with many displaying White-winged Black Terns… …Citrine Wagtails… …and hundreds of Ruff. The males in their finery can sport ruffs being anything from white to dark chestnut, like this male The reeds appear to bend under the weight of singing Great Reed Warbler - the size of a Starling! Nearby the ‘pleased to see you’ song of a raspberry-red male Scarlet Rosefinch rings out… …while a European Tree Frog does its best not to be noticed by our group Red-backed Shrikes are a regular feature of spring migration in Eastern Europe… …while the Beech forests echo to the silvery trills of Wood Warbler… …and the loud ‘weeep’ calls of displaying male Collared Flycatchers. The vast mixed forests will give us many encounters with woodpeckers. Firstly the rather secretive White-backed… …followed by the rather noisy Middle-Spotted… …and the unobtrusive Three-toed… …which prefers much wetter spruce forest, like this at Turov. Eastern Europe is also rich in other fauna, like butterflies. This Map Butterfly basks on the ground… …while this European Swallowtail rests on vegetation. An early morning walk could result in sightings of feeding Wild Boar… …while nearby on the edge of coniferous forests, Firecrests sing enthusiastically… …and as soon as the thermals are generated, Black Storks take to the air. Our final showpiece are the nesting Great Grey Owls, which usually put on a fine show for their gathered admirers.

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