My name is Gavin Cowper, I am originally from Dundee, Scotland but I moved to Košice, Slovakia in 2005. Since July 2020 I have been living and birding in the village of Budimír, east Slovakia.
I have always longed to be a part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to the town as a stranger. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.
J.A. Baker, The Peregrine, 1967
Košice Patch Birding 