Venice

Sorry for the very touristy nature of the photos in this post, but this morning we caught the 6:50 train from a little town near Trieste and less than two hours later we arrived at Venice Santa Lucia train station. Tall narrow streets with buildings crammed together, no parks and thousands of tourists, I just wasn't expecting much bird life. Add to that the near 30 degree heat and even I was never going to carry binoculars and a proper(ish) camera today.

It turned out ok in the end though, there were a few common terns, a single pygmy cormorant, three more African sacred ibis flew over, a few little egrets and best of all, five pallid swifts chased each other close to the waterbus we were on, fortunately close enough for me to be confident of the identification without binoculars.