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    What are the most interesting wildlife that you've seen in YOUR HOUSE?

    Pine marten. I wondered how the packet of chocolate biscuits had reached the floor.
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    Birding In Nerja

    Sounds like you need to walk into the hills along the track which runs from near the entrance to the Nerja caves.
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    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    There is currently a blue-winged teal in Algeciras port. It frequents the coast between the Corte Ingles and the northern entry bridge to the port.
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    Birding Cadiz (& nearby)

    The buntings are to be found where the road from Benalup crosses the old river Celemin. In reality the little buntings are so readily seen that there are presumably several dozen in the area - the rustics are more difficult to find.
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    Is this Meadow Pipit and not Tree? + Song (ignore gropper at end)

    "It's a Tree Pipit, on both appearance......" Please could you amplify this for the benefit of the ignorant.
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    Grey plover - Spain

    Can anyone suggest a ringing scheme for a grey plover with red over white rings on the right tibia?
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    Birding at Kruger camps, South Africa

    I would be inclined to describe Kruger park shops as adequate rather than good.
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    Birding at Kruger camps, South Africa

    I have always found it appropriate to stay for a few nights between Johannesburg and Kruger principally because you need to shop somewhere and that absorbs a fair amount of time. This year we stayed in an Airbnb in Presidentsrus and in Somabula nature reserve. The disadvantage of the first was...
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    Nerja in November

    The track mentioned by Alvaro (and appearing on Google maps) will take you all the way to the top of the hills behind Nerja if you have time to get there. The higher reaches have birds like Bonellis and golden eagles and alpine accentors. Closer to Nerja the area between Maro and the sea is not...
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    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    There is an american golden plover being seen close to the most southerly point of the salinas at Barbate.
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    Id needed

    Brown snake-eagle ?
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    Tayforth Birding

    Anyone looking for the american wigeon should go to Bothkennar ponds which are just north of Grangemouth on the map.
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    Griswold’s Vacations 2022

    Dont get too enthusiastic about travelling down LochLomondside at night. It is not unusual for the road to be closed.
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    Pantanal on own boat

    One danger I notice in the Worldlandtrust report is "floating vegetation" which can close a river completely. Getting a canoe over a few miles of floating plants is far from straightforward. Happened to us on the Mississipi.
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    Guadix and Baza, Southern Spain

    I also remember one of the roadhouses along the Guadix - Baza road as being quite good about ten years ago, but I cannot remember which one.
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    Guadix and Baza, Southern Spain

    I used to visit the area from time to time. The south side of the dry river about half way between Guadix and Hernan Valle provides a pleasant walk if it is not too hot, and further along that road to the east of Gor is good for a ramble.
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    Comic tern - Spain

    Is it possible to be definite about the ID of this tern. Taken today April 23.
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    Tarifa watchpoints

    No restrictions on using the watchpoints. Otherwise you might be lucky with a toilet at Cazalla.
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    Southern Spain / Gibraltar - Best week in Spring for raptors

    "Birding the Strait" and "Inglorious Bustards" may be appropriate depending on where you are hoping to go.
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    Do any birds migrate along an arc?

    Does Eleanora"s falcon fit the bill ?
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    How is it that 90% of the gulls that fly past my house are flying into the wind ?

    It is actually in the Strait of Gibraltar so we get winds which are more or less East or more or less West and, whatever the wind direction, over 90% of the gulls are flying into the wind. This can go on for days on end so it is hundreds, if not thousands of gulls. There are roosts in both...
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    Birding Andalucia 7 Days

    Just to add a bit more about the Strait of Gibraltar. In the Strait the wind at lower levels tends to run east to west or west to east and to be relatively strong. Most migrants crossing the Strait arrive at the leeward end or even farther leeward. If the wind exceeds force 5 few migrants cross...
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    How is it that 90% of the gulls that fly past my house are flying into the wind ?

    How is it that 90% of the gulls that fly past my house are flying into the wind, and I cannot detect any return route ?
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    Vultures in Andalucia

    Which colonies in Andalucia provide the most spectacular views of vultures ?
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    Birding Andalucia 7 Days

    It rather depends whether you are expecting to see birds or birding sites. I have not been to Donana or Brazo del Este, but Brazo del Este and Fuente de Piedra would seem to provide little that cannot be seen in Donana and, unless it rains substantially in the next few weeks, Fuente de Piedra is...
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