More excuses than pictures, again…

We’ve arrived in Marathon, Greece, safe and sound, but after dark, and our daytime was split between riding in airplanes and sitting in the airport at Istanbul where we connected, so I didn’t get any pictures today. I did see a couple of house sparrows in the terminal and a pair of wagtails out on the tarmac, but I wasn’t ready to take their pictures, so I got nothin’.

Instead, let me leave you with my favorite airport bird of all time, at least so far, which is this superb starling (Lamprotornis superbus), and yes, that’s its real name. We saw a couple of them on the tarmac at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport outside of Nairobi, Kenya, back in March of 2024 on our way home from the Comoros islands, and I could hardly believe my eyes.

I still can’t believe I was able to get a picture through the dirty terminal window to come out even this good, so it is my best reminder to “always be birding.”

Tomorrow I will get to go out to the waterfront at sunrise to see who’s around, so wish me luck!