To describe my lifelong fascination with flight and with creatures that fly I like to echo the words of John James Audubon who in 1839 wrote of himself as "...one who never can cease to admire and to study with zeal and the most heartfelt reverence, the wonderful productions of an Almighty Creator."
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Northern Wheatear in Turkey
On my recent trip to Eastern Europe, I was privileged to spend about 24 hours in Turkey. Along the way to Istanbul we stopped at a service plaza along the freeway through wide open agricultural land. I soon heard a tumbling cascade of musical notes from near the edge of the nearby field, and discovered a Northern Wheatear apparently doing territorial or courtship flights, and then landing on fencepost to watch for insect prey. This brought to mind my only previous encounter with this species on the tundra a little northeast of Nome, Alaska.
On my recent trip to Eastern Europe, I was privileged to spend about 24 hours in Turkey. Along the way to Istanbul we stopped at a service plaza along the freeway through wide open agricultural land. I soon heard a tumbling cascade of musical notes from near the edge of the nearby field, and discovered a Northern Wheatear apparently doing territorial or courtship flights, and then landing on fencepost to watch for insect prey. This brought to mind my only previous encounter with this species on the tundra a little northeast of Nome, Alaska.
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