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| Male Ural Owl Strix uralensis (same ind. in all three pics). |
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| The 3rd uralensis of the day. |
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| Male Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides tridactylus - note the thin yellow stripe on the head. |
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| Old nesting cavities of Three-toed Woodpecker in a dead conifer. |
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| Three-toed habitat. |
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| Somewhere in that fog was lurking the 5th Ural Owl of the day. |
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| Scopolia carniolica - never tired of these! |
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| Cardamine trifolia |
Excellent day in the Kočevje forests doing a census of
Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides tridactylus. Had 3 individuals, one of which was a nice male with yellow crown. Thus I accomplished one of my targets for 2015: to see a male (after last year's 15 or so females). In the daytime hours
Ural Owls Strix uralensis were particularly active with a total of 5 birds contacted. Four of them were seen (2 pairs and one singleton). An adult
Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos gliding above a forested slope was also of note. By far the commonest bird of the day was Cuckoo
Cuculus canorus - heard one at every census stop (about 15 in total).
