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  1. 3Italianbirders

    Germany and Netherlands in mid-June?

    I am sure about the better birding, but 1600 km from Cologne sound like a longish drive to me (and we are long-distance drivers) 😉. We have just those 10 days as we need to be back here on the 21st.
  2. 3Italianbirders

    Germany and Netherlands in mid-June?

    Thanks, Temmie!
  3. 3Italianbirders

    A visitor's guide to European birding portals

    Fantastic job! Great stuff, really, and extremely useful. I can add my two cents re. Italy: Ornitho is popular especially among the older generation of birders and the professional ornithologists, but not very user-friendly Ubird is for members of EBN Italia, Italy's foremost birding...
  4. 3Italianbirders

    Visit to Milan

    As far as I know, but I am not from the area, there is a Pallid Swift colony in the San Siro stadium in Milan
  5. 3Italianbirders

    Germany and Netherlands in mid-June?

    Thank you Peter!
  6. 3Italianbirders

    Canada May 2024 trip - Part one Vancouver Island and surrounding area.

    Wow, very envious. This brings me back to our trip to BC 8 years ago. Fantastic stuff, looking forward to hearing about the rest of the trip!
  7. 3Italianbirders

    Where to see hoopoes, European bee-eater and European roller in Europe in September?

    Writing from my experience in central Italy, where all three species are fairly common breeding species, I would say that Bee-eater is the last to leave and I have recorded sightings until around early October, but that's during migration, our local ones disappear at the end of August, as with...
  8. 3Italianbirders

    Germany and Netherlands in mid-June?

    Hello all, as usual we are too late planning our summer holidays and as usual we can go as soon as school is out here, which is June 10 (we may be able to leave a couple of days earlier), which is already too late for decent birding almost anywhere apart from mountains and places up north. Also...
  9. 3Italianbirders

    Birding in Southern Tuscany and thereabouts

    More pics from last few days in the Val d'Orcia and the Monte Labbro (mentioned several times in this thread - a 30 minute drive on the other side of the mountain) areas. So far it seems like a good year for Rollers and Montys, but a poor one for migrating small falcons (Lesser Kestrels and...
  10. 3Italianbirders

    Birding in Southern Tuscany and thereabouts

    Unfortunately it wasn't me, but G who saw it - I wasn't there that day. We went back the following day to try and find it but it was so windy we could barely stand... so no Tarsiger for me... 😞. July is a dead month for birds here, and especially further south, unless you are in high mountain areas.
  11. 3Italianbirders

    Birding in Southern Tuscany and thereabouts

    with audio!
  12. 3Italianbirders

    Birding in Southern Tuscany and thereabouts

    And a sequence with probably the most common bird in our parts: a singing Corn Bunting
  13. 3Italianbirders

    Birding in Southern Tuscany and thereabouts

    Thanks Mike! And now a brief photographic account of what we've been seeing in the past few days in our local patch (the Val d'Orcia). The photos are not great as I have now got a new zoom lens for myself (so that I don't have to badger G for his pics every time)and am still trying to achieve...
  14. 3Italianbirders

    Birding in Southern Tuscany and thereabouts

    Thank you Dragnil!
  15. 3Italianbirders

    Birding trip to Italian alps

    The road up the mountain is an actual road, even if a gravel one. If there is no snow, or a little it should be ok, but I wouldn't bet on the trail that goes back down, but you can always go back the same way. Have a good trip!
  16. 3Italianbirders

    Birding in Southern Tuscany and thereabouts

    4 - April With Spring migration very slow in our area, on April 18 we drove down to the coast again, this time to a WWF-managed wetland near the busy port town of Piombino. The morning there was pretty good with a single Whiskered Tern and a Marsh Sandpiper, a small flock of Glossy Ibis, plus...
  17. 3Italianbirders

    Birding in Southern Tuscany and thereabouts

    3 - March Our first spring trip saw us in neighbouring Lazio again, where we attended a conference on the (nearly extinct) European Lanner Falcon. On the way we logged the first Lesser Kestrels and the first House Martins of the year. The town where the conference was held used to host Egyptian...
  18. 3Italianbirders

    Birding in Southern Tuscany and thereabouts

    2 - December, January and February The main event was an Imperial Eagle at the Diaccia Botrona wetland, one of our regular haunts, we had good scope views, but our friend Marina flushed it from a tree by the side of the road, so the photo is hers. We also spent a morning on the beach near...
  19. 3Italianbirders

    Birding in Southern Tuscany and thereabouts

    Apologies if I’m resurrecting this thread AGAIN, but I do it mostly because it’s easier for me to keep everything in one place. I have been mostly absent from BF even I can’t explain why. Sorry about that. Anyway I thought I’d write a brief post with the main birding events of the past few...
  20. 3Italianbirders

    Birding trip to Italian alps

    Below some tips that I sent to another BF user last year, for an Autumn trip. As I said I don't know which ones of these areas are accessible at present. I have written comments relevant to the season in red. Be warned, these are not necessarily birding hotspots in the proper sense, but nice...
  21. 3Italianbirders

    Birding trip to Italian alps

    Sorry, I have just read this. I live very far from the Alps, so I don't know very well the snow situation right now but I can certainly give you some ideas. Just a moment, let me find out some coordinates
  22. 3Italianbirders

    Various Yellow Wagtail subspecies, Italy April 2023

    Thank you both! "Wacky Wagtails" certainly is an appropriate description!
  23. 3Italianbirders

    Various Yellow Wagtail subspecies, Italy April 2023

    I am finally getting around to posting some photos of the various subspecies of Yellow Wagtail that we saw during the Easter break on Ventotene island, off the coast south of Rome. We have ideas but some look like intergrades of some sort and additional opinions would be very welcome. 1 and 2...
  24. 3Italianbirders

    Birding trip to Italian alps

    Best spot for Lammergeier is the Stelvio pass, but it will probably be closed in early spring. You can have a look at our trip report here. I'll write with more info later.
  25. 3Italianbirders

    Conference Birding: Philip Island, Melbourne 8 September2023

    This makes one almost look forward to winter birding!
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