randombirder

No award-winning photos but a local hoopoe is always a draw and my second within 15 mins of home within fields by the lovely village church.

When my good friend Jason said he was heading over from the land down under for a month-long visit to his second home, the threat of four days with him loomed large and the pressure was on to find a suitable destination for a birding and beer trip.  While the UK of course provides a multitude of possibilities, the meteorological vagaries temper confidence in a rain free trip which could dampen things somewhat.  So Poland it was, cheap, accessible, and generally full of sun at this time of year.  So on arrival, to find it was 14C and raining was somewhat amusing. Thankfully the weather had improved the following day, low 20s as oppossed to the 34C that we had left behind in London.  This made things really pleasant for wandering around and we did cover some ground amassing a total of 106 species which we felt was a great effort considering the time of year. With two and a half days at our disposal, the car hire pickup and subsequent two and a half hour drive had us in...