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| Pel's Fishing Owl photographed in the Okavango Delta, Botswana |
While some of us are stuck in the office, it's good to know that others are out there enjoying some great wildlife!
Some truly amazing extralimital 'rarity' records in recent weeks have included Africa's first Black Skimmer (35 days after one was watched flying south past a Co Mayo headland in August); Europe's first Eastern Kingbird on the Co Galway island of Inishmore; another amazing autumn of American birds arriving on the Azores, including such mouthwatering goodies as White-eyed Vireo, Dickcissel, Wood Thrush, Golden-winged Warbler and Lincoln's Sparrow... and no doubt more to come; a Pel's Fishing Owl feeding on goldfish from a Cape Town pond, some 2000km away from the nearest breeding population; a couple of rare Siberians in the form of an Eastern Crowned Warbler on Heligoland in Germany and a Rufous-tailed Robin in Denmark; and also from Denmark, and perhaps most remarkable of all, the first Wolf seen in that country since the last Danish wolf was shot in 1772!
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