From December 2021 to April 2022 Birdingplaces and Leica organized a winter contest among birdwatchers. Any birder who added a birdwatching area to www.Birdingplaces.eu had a chance to win high quality Leica binoculars. More than 11.000 birders visited the action page www.birdingplaces.eu/share-a-birding-area-and-win and within four months more than 1000 new […]

At Leica, we have always believed in the power of connecting with the world as it truly is. For generations, our cameras and sport optics equipment have sought to bring the natural world into sharp focus; to communicate the beauty of our world. Now, we are committed to helping protect […]

2021 in the zodiac calendar is the year of the ox – for me it was the year of the butterfly. A birder by trade, previous butterfly seasons failed to come to fruition owing to the complex requirements of these dainty creatures and the skill needed to discern similar species […]

It’s a time of firsts over here on the island: first chicks, first wildflowers, and the first days digging out the long-buried suncream! Our earliest breeding birds, ravens, were already building their nests when we returned to Skomer back in March. Now, two months on, adults ferrying food back-and-forth to […]

On 1st March, the Skomer Island team, including myself Leighton Newman, Skomer Warden, Ceris Aston, Assistant Warden, and Beth Thompson, Visitor Officer, boarded the Helen Claire and headed back to the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales’ Skomer Island for the start of the 2022 season. There was, as […]

The Leica Ultravid HD-Plus models are among the most popular binoculars for uncompromised nature observation. They turn every moment into an unforgettable experience, and attention to detail into pure passion. Fluoride lenses ensure brilliant color fidelity, unique image brightness, and razor-sharp images. The optics also suppress stray light very efficiently, […]

Kate MacRae, also known as WildlifeKate, reports on how the Leica Trinovid 10×32 were her invaluable companions for this year’s Big Garden Birdwatch. Every year, I look forward to a very special event run by the RSPB; the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. This yearly event is called […]

More than 4000 birders voted for their favourite migratory bird in the Bird Migration Competition that was organized by www.birdingplaces.eu. It was an exciting battle between the common swift and the common crane, but in the end the crane was the clear winner with 1302 votes. Below you can see […]

I have been mostly based in Spain since the beginning of the pandemic. If I am to be honest, it has been a conscious decision to stay firmly put within Extremadura, the fifth largest region in this Mediterranean country rich in hospitality, history, great food and wine. Extremadura is a […]

During lockdown Ryan Dalton started the fantastic podcast Into The Wild, a weekly podcast series dedicated to wildlife and nature platforming conversations with experts in the field of natural science. Now a regular in the top 10 for UK nature podcasts, Leica asked Ryan to tell us a bit about […]