Hoverfly highlights 2019

I'm still waiting patiently for my specimen results for the year, Roger has assured me that they wont be to long now. So here's a round up of this years records and a few photos of the highlights.

 Cheilosia chrysocoma

 Chrysotoxum arcuatum

 Chrysotoxum festivum

 Criorhina asilica

Xanthogramma stackelbergi

sandgrouse

Sandgrouse are amongst my favourite bird families. There are 16 species in the family, I've seen 11 species of these of which I have photographed 8 species.

 Spotted Sandgrouse - Morocco

 Crowned Sandgrouse - Morocco

 Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse - Ethiopia

 Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse - Ethiopia

 Black-bellied Sandgrouse - Kazakhstan

 Pallas's Sandgrouse - Kazakhstan

 Namaqua Sandgrouse - South Africa

Burchell's Sandgrouse [foreground] with Namaqua Sandgrouse [pair behind] - South Africa

Blast from the past volume 3 - African birds of prey

 Long-crested Eagle - Ethiopia

 Shikra - Ethiopia

 Osprey - Gambia

 Jackal Buzzard - South Africa

Pale-chanting Goshawk - South Africa

Blast from the past volume 2

Continuing on the theme on nocturnal birds here's some Owls.

 Pharoah's Eagle-Owl - Morocco

 Great Grey Owl - Finland

 Pygmy Owl - Finland

 Pearl-spotted Owlet - Gambia

Spotted Eagle-owl - South Africa

blast from the past volume 1

With the nights long and cold here's some nightjars roosting by day from the archive.

 Egyptian Nightjar - Morocco

 Montane Nightjar - Ethiopia

 Long-tailed Nightjar - Gambia

Standard-winged Nightjar - Gambia