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    What makes someone a 'Birding Legend'?

    Same for me.
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    Köyceğiz & Mugla area - SW Turkey

    09.06.24 Another ride out- same route. Eleonora’s Falcons still present. 17 visible in left side trees from the roadside after the Palmiye road bridge , then separate groups in assorted trees along the next bridged channel and across the road behind Sedge cattle field. Hard to put a total on...
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    Three Turkish Dragonflies

    It felt like it here. Absolutely everywhere.
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    Three Turkish Dragonflies

    Thanks 👍🏼
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    Three Turkish Dragonflies

    Köyceğiz - SW Türkiye I’m new to dragonflies - any ideas on the two living ones and the half dead one? I’ve had a look through the guides but am not certain.
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    Köyceğiz & Mugla area - SW Turkey

    08/06/24 6am birding with Tora B before the heat got too much. Quiet at first then we picked up a couple of Eleonoras Falcons across the marsh which then became 9 as we realised there were 7 birds perching throughout a Eucalyptus grove. Very pleased with this , especially as a dark morph hunted...
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    What makes someone a 'Birding Legend'?

    I knew and benefitted from knowing an elderly local birding legend when I was a kid and if I had to distill his legendary-ness down to three criteria they were: 1. Instrumental in helping get an industrial wasteland designated a nature reserve. 2. One of the founding members of a bird club 3...
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    Köyceğiz & Mugla area - SW Turkey

    27/05/24 Due to meet a group of German birders in the evening I managed an hour and half’s birding beforehand from tip to Hamitkoy and back. Nothing extraordinary but a good selection of birds in a short time. 2 Eleonora’s Falcons - same area around 3rd bridge. Also reported at Toparlar falls...
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    State of Hirundine passage this Spring?

    This is my 3rd spring living in SW Turkey and I’ve thought numbers of both Swallows are impressive. The flocks over the extensive reedbeds are huge, Red Rumped have made lots of new nests (on new buildings) and there are new House Martin colonies. All (10 +) old Barn Swallow nests at a friends...
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    Köyceğiz & Mugla area - SW Turkey

    18/05/24 Highlights 2 Eleonora’s Falcons (Dark & light). Using a stand of Eucalyptus off the Hamitkoy Road and the area around there. Also 19th and 23rd. Same place- Moustached Warbler, Little Bittern , 3 Cattle Egrets, 1 Marsh Warbler , with 2 Penduline Tits - on the Sedge area opposite melon...
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    Köyceğiz & Mugla area - SW Turkey

    Possible though no white rump visible. We didn’t get our bins on the bird as we were cycling and stopped mid road, when it flew almost behind us. We were both clear on it being large and the bright sunlight and flight angle may have obscured a rump. I’ll return tomorrow , you never know. We had...
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    Köyceğiz & Mugla area - SW Turkey

    Rufous Bush Robin
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    Köyceğiz & Mugla area - SW Turkey

    12/05/24 An hour and a half of casual birding/biking with Tora Benzeyen. A new area has opened up where access was previously blocked- a promising looking pool at the end of a quiet channel-side path. Squacco Heron on the pool and lots of Warblers in the scrub. 1 Golden Plover - beach, 1...
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    Köyceğiz & Mugla area - SW Turkey

    Despite my late start to spring for unavoidable reasons it’s been a cracker though no rarities involved. Good, sometimes spectacular , numbers of some target species and stunning views. Plus an influx of birders, and more to come it seems The area of the Namnam I re-explored with Dave B. has...
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    Garden / Yard List 2024

    P Merlin regularly picks out birds I’ve overlooked in a loud chorus of singers, which I confirm by sight . I seem to overlook reasonably distant calling Hoopoe quite often but Merlin records it correctly. At the same time it (or my phone’s manky dust-laden microphone?) doesn’t pick up obvious...
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