Christmas Gifts with Bird Motifs – Gentle Little Treasures for Nature Lovers
December is just around the corner. You don’t want to go crazy in the pre-Christmas rush, but you still haven’t picked gifts for your bird-loving friends – or even a proper ornithologist? Sit back and relax, you’ve come to the right place. As a passionate birdwatcher myself, I’m sharing my 5 favorite…
Advent Is Around the Corner: Make Your Own Christmas Candle Holder from Fir Boughs
November is slowly saying goodbye, and with the first Sunday of Advent begins a season traditionally tied to reflection, anticipation, and quiet joy. Yet in today’s fast-paced world, the days before Christmas tend to fill up with stress. It’s easy to forget about all the beauty around us – colorful leaves,…
Pumpkin Exhibition 2025: Halloween at the Prague Botanical Garden
Among the autumn-colored treetops, along the road on my way home, a giant, shameless billboard with a pumpkin kept following me. You know the kind – those loud roadside ads fighting for drivers’ attention. I was sure I was immune to this one. At first, the billboard only planted a tiny pumpkin seed of curiosity…
Review: Wooden Bird Feeder with Roof (At the Bird Table #1)
The landscape, in the sacred hush of November days, wraps itself in the cold shades of misty mornings. The sun of late autumn gently brushes the bare hillsides, nods a greeting to a rising flock of ravens, and disappears into the shadows of a mysterious forest. The afternoon light gives one last golden…
RAW or JPEG? What Every Beginner Photographer Should Know
Back in the days of classic film photography, taking a picture didn’t end with pressing the shutter button. The image was captured on film that had to be painstakingly developed in a darkroom. Do you know what a developer and a fixer were for? In the age of digital photography, you no longer need…
Welcome, Autumn: How to Make a Simple Rosehip Wreath for Your Door
“September, September, summer’s getting old” – as the charming children’s song goes. But there’s no need to feel sad. Summer, in all its mature wisdom, has left us a beautiful farewell gift: bright red rosehips. Nature thoughtfully provides for the birds, giving them something to eat as food becomes scarce in…
5 Heartwarming Gift Ideas for Bird Lovers
Looking for a gift for a nature lover? Someone who can’t take their eyes off the lively little chickadees at the feeder? Who stops to listen to birdsong whether they’re in the woods or downtown? Who interrupts a conversation with, “Oh look, a sparrow!” and gazes out the window with misty eyes instead of…
Behind the Shot: European Robin – Following the Song
In this multi-part series Behind the Shot, I’ll share some of my birdwatching and photography adventures with you. Together, we’ll retrace the journey behind my dream shot of the European robin. Well – I already took that journey. It’s been exactly a year since I began observing and photographing birds in the spring…
Black Redstart – A May Fledgling
A May evening was just perfect for a reflective walk in nature. The calm waters of my stroll were suddenly rippled by a wave of pure joy – the thrill of an unexpected encounter. Out of the blue, perched on a fence between garden plots, appeared a small, grayish, irresistibly cute black redstart chick.…
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