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I was honoured to have two of my photos featured in The National Audubon Society’s 2027 Mini Hummingbird Calendar . This calendar is for sale wherever Calendars are sold and on the Audubon website and on Amazon Canada . My Buff-tailed Coronet I shot in Ecuador is featured for the month of October and my Bee Hummingbird photographed in Cuba is featured for February and on the back of the calendar. It is a true honour! The cover of the 2027 Audubon Society Hummingbirds Mini Calendar The back of the calendar has my Bee Hummingbird featured to the left  My photo of a Buff-tailed Coronet from Ecuador is featured for October. This photo of a Bee Hummingbird is featured for February

We had a nice young birder trip at Cypress Bowl on the weekend. You can read our trip report HERE   on the BC Young Birders website. Young Birders on Cypress Mountain - Photo: Kalin Ocana

This summer I went off to Portugal, Spain and Norway. I first flew to Faro via Dublin.  I was going to spend a week in the Algarve region of Southern Portugal. It was very balmy and warm when I got off the plane. I stayed in a town called Albufeira. I was a bit worried about all the alarm about Europe running out of fuel due to the war in Iran but thankfully had no issues. At my hotel I was surprised by just how many birds I was able to see on the hotel grounds. There was White Wagtails, Yellow-legged Gulls, the cool looking Common Hoopoes, Iberian and Eurasian Magpies, Eurasian Kestrels, curious Eurasian Jays, Cattle Egrets eating the noisy Iberian Water Frogs, Western House-Martins, Eurasian Blackbirds, elegant looking Spotless Starlings, European Red-rumped Swallows, Eurasian Linnets, European Greenfinches and Sardinian Warblers singing constantly. I really enjoyed watching the beautiful Iberian Magpies as they travelled in small flocks and made a noisy ruckus. They like all j...