A couple of days within student life in Naivasha and amidst local fishermen in Lake Oloiden provided close encounters with large mammals plus storks, pelicans, hamerkops, buzzards, swallows and more.

Summer season is the prime time for waders in south Alicante, with marsh sandpipers, godwits and curlew sandpipers in El Hondo and black tern, pratincoles and regular rarities as elegant terns in El Pinet.