Peregrine Falcons at the Drachenfels, 10.02.2024

After having twitched the Wallcreeper at the Drachenfels outside Bonn in January (covered in my previous post), I visited the site again with my parents so that my father could see the bird as well. The bird had now been around for over two months and drew a significant number of birders in this time. …

Wallcreeper at the Drachenfels (Bonn), 27.01.2024

While recently doing some random bird-related research on my laptop, I suddenly gasped in disbelief as I saw the words "Wallcreeper" and "Bonn" in the same sentence. Upon a little more reading I realized that a Wallcreeper had been seen close to the city since late December, and remained there throughout January. I was surprised …

Sinharaja Rainforest, 02.-04.02.2019

We had a 3-day weekend due to the National Day on January 4, so we used this opportunity to get out of the city and go to Sinharaja Forest Reserve, arguably Sri Lanka's best rainforest birding site. We've been to the southern entrance at Deniyaya before (see trip report here), but the northern entrance is …