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Post Category → Switzerland

Lausanne Birding: 90 Minutes at Ouchy Port

posted in Birds, Switzerland on May 17, 2026 by Bob Ramsak 4 Comments

Red-crested Pochards, Great Crested Grebes, a pair of Eurasian Coots, Carrion Crows, a Greater Cormorant, Yellow legged Gulls and a Mute Swan on the Lake Geneva shore line.

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In Transit: Nice to Zurich

posted in Climate Change, France, In Transit, Pic du Jour, Switzerland on February 7, 2026 by Bob Ramsak 2 Comments

Snow cover in the Southern French Alps on 6 February 2026.

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On the Lake Geneva Shoreline

posted in Pic du Jour, Switzerland on January 17, 2026 by Bob Ramsak 1 Comment

A ray of sunshine over Lac Leman, in Lausanne.

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Postcard of a Swiss Railways Advert from 1958

posted in Postcards, Switzerland on January 13, 2023 by Bob Ramsak 0 Comments

From Postcrossing member @LindaJ.

Human Rights Poster Series in Geneva Marks 70th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights

posted in Human Rights, Switzerland on May 23, 2018 by Bob Ramsak 0 Comments

14 posters that stand up for human rights.

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Fifty Images from ‘Exile’, a Magnum Exhibition Chronicling Migration Over the Last 70 Years

posted in Photography, Refugees and Migration, Switzerland on May 21, 2018 by Bob Ramsak 0 Comments

The work centers on migration as a study of what displacement has meant, been and wrought over the past 70 years. The timelessness of the story it weaves is riveting.

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Moving in. Watch your head. And look out for the birds.

This is BobRamsak.com, a public notebook by Bob Ramsak.

I’m a long-time journalist, photographer and researcher driven by passions for environmental, social and refugee justice. I’ve visited 62 countries and write something and make pictures (almost) every day. This site is a notebook and photolog where I track and (sometimes) comment on those interests, journal my travels and log my current obsessions. At the moment the most dominant ones are the global response to the climate crisis and a renewed passion for birding and bird photography.

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