South Africa Bird Tour Day 1 – Cinnamon House
Although we arrived on October 5, 2025 the official start of our Red Hill Birding bird tour began on October 8. As previously mentioned we arrived a few days early…
GBP Bird Photograph of the Week – 11/14/25
A tough decision this week but I have to give Avneet Kaur’s Prothonotary Warbler the Bird Photograph of the Week award! Such a simple composition (note how she left all…
A Few From India
Sylvester Alphonso lives in Mumbai, India and regularly shares some shots of birds he sees around there. I’m not familiar with these birds but they make me want to visit…
Fall Colors
We received some Great Bird Pics taken with fall colors in the background lately, so take a look: We start out with some subtle colors in the background, Asteinmann shared…
Initial Facts and Figures On Our South Africa Bird Tour
During the course of our 17 day bird tour in South Africa our Red Hill Birding guide Josh created 182 eBird checklists! Josh would religiously record the species seen during…
South Africa Bird Tour – First of Many Reports
Today is the first in a series of posts about our birding tour in South Africa. In this post I’ll share an overview of the trip and some of the…
Posts About Taking A Birding Tour In South Africa
My wife Karen and I went to South Africa in October, 2025. The tour was conducted by Red Hill Birding and was excellent! Below are links to each of the…
GBP’s Bird Photograph of the Week – 11/07/25
Lots of Great Bird Pics coming in so it was hard to pick just one. Several had some great fall colors in the background and I’ll feature them next week.…
BIF Shots
GreatBirdPics members must have been practicing their BIF (Birds in Flight) shots lately because they’ve been sharing lots of them. Here are some of my favorites: Mike Affinito was up…
Change Your Workflow When Applying Lightroom Denoise to Decrease Downtime
Once I started using AI Denoise in Lightroom Classic 12.3 (released April, 2023) I was impressed with the quality of the final images. This first version created a new DMG…
Reflection Pics
You know I’m partial to reflection pics so I was going through the Latest Pics section and found two good ones. It just so happens both of them were shared…
Never Heard of Them
When reviewing the Latest Pics section I always get a kick out of seeing pictures of birds I’ve never heard of. With over 11,000 species of birds that’s not a…