BIRDWATCHING FESTIVAL – Sagres

Another year, another festival.

It is only the 2nd, but it looks set to stay!

Birds – lots of them! Between passerines and raptors, we learnt a great deal this year.

Field trips, bird ringing, courses in ornithology, nature photography and bird illustration!! Boat trips to watch seabirds, nest-box building, walks in the company of donkeys and photo walks in Sagres!! Dolphin watching, walks over the Jurassic coast at Praia da Mareta, and listening to birds on migration!!

All this and much more, just to whet your appetite for next year :)

Thank you to Marcelo Dias for being a fantastic guide on our 1st birdwatching walk, to Zito Colaço for passing on his experience as a nature photographer, to João Tiago Tavares for teaching us a little more about the structure of birds and how to illustrate them, and to SPEA (http://www.spea.pt/), Almargem (http://www.almargem.org/) and the Câmara Municipal de Vila do Bispo for organising the festival!

An eagle - can anyone tell us which species?

Who said that to photograph nature we didn't have to get down to its level?

Here, "capturing" a wild flower.

The most fearless and adventurous photographer on our photo walk in Sagres