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  1. Andy Hurley

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    Eurasian Dotterel - BirdForum Opus | BirdForum on migration in Ostfriesland Germany on the 28th Sept. On our week long trip to the German /Dutch North Sea coast/ Wadden Sea. I got a further 35 year list birds from the coast, mainly waders/shorebirds, but also a Barn Owl, which was a first for my...
  2. Andy Hurley

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    As I'm just back from my first trip to Sri Lanka, I have between 160 and 170 lifers (still confirming) breaking though the 1000 with Spotted Dove on day one. The last 4 confirmed endemics are Orange-billed Babbler, Ashy-headed Laughingthrush, Sri Lanka Drongo and Layard's Parakeet.
  3. Andy Hurley

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    758 Bar headed Goose an unringed Bar-headed Goose at the Steinhorster Becken in Germany. The few seen regularly passing through are ringed. Could this be an offspring of escaped ferals?
  4. Andy Hurley

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    757 White-winged Tern in Pomorie, Bulgaria 27 Sept. was my last with 26 lifers from Bulgaria
  5. Andy Hurley

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    The last of my 150 lifers from my Southern Africa trip was 733 Lizard Buzzard
  6. Andy Hurley

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    An armchair lifer, (557) Cape Gull from Namibia in 2013 that I had down as Kelp Gull
  7. Andy Hurley

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    Red-footed Falcon(553), Atlantic Canary (554) and Cory's Shearwater (555), all in the Azores (Sao Miguel) last week. My species count there was only 31, no wintering ducks yet but I got 9 new subspecies. The day I tried for the Azores Bullfinch proved unfruitful, too cloudy (low cloud base) and...
  8. Andy Hurley

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    551 Great Bustard. At least 31 of them in a field near Buschow 1, Brandenburg Germany 23 09 14
  9. Andy Hurley

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    I added Barrow's Goldeneye (about 200) and a Rock Ptarmigan to my lifelist in Iceland bringing my Iceland haul up to 9 lifers. I didn't find any Red Phalarope, so I will have to return to see them in breeding plumage. edit: If I count the Repoll I saw as Common, then that is now 550 species...
  10. Andy Hurley

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    Gyr Falcon, Redwing, Snow Bunting, Red Necked Phalarope, Glaucous Gull,and Arctic Skua, all in Iceland. 5 days in and 46 Species so far in the west. Heading east tomorrow, I hope the storm eases a bit and we get some sunshine. Nothing but rain and storm so far but the birding is fantastic, my...
  11. Andy Hurley

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    540 Common Quail at the Steinhorster Becken, near Paderborn Germany
  12. Andy Hurley

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    Icterine Warbler (538), near Paderborn, Germany this morning
  13. Andy Hurley

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    Pink Footed Goose in Dungeness, Kent Uk on Tuesday
  14. Andy Hurley

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    Great Grey Shrike (534) at the Dümmersee, Niedersachsen, Germany.
  15. Andy Hurley

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    533 Caspian Gull on a rubbish dump near Paderborn Germany.
  16. Andy Hurley

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    Nice find Enji, lovely photos too
  17. Andy Hurley

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    I do, some will be from more than one country obviously, but my Europe lists are as follows Denmark 33 Germany 179 Spain(Mallorca) 103 UK 102 My UK list is short because I have only been back twice to go birding Edit I've just counted the birds first seen in europe from my lifelist. Its 244
  18. Andy Hurley

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    532 Water Rail in Paderborn Germany, at the Padersee, a very well visited lake. It was moving about under vegatation on the shore
  19. Andy Hurley

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    I saw 2 male Wood Ducks in Central Germany today, accompanied by a male and female Mandarin Ducks. The former were new for me (531)
  20. Andy Hurley

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    Do you have an alternative list of species you've actually seen? Just because it's not of the ABA list doesn't mean it doesn't exist and that you've actually seen it! It would seem a pity not to list it somewhere and politics shouldn't really enter the realms of reality, they(the polititians)...
  21. Andy Hurley

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    nice armchair birding, your birding solution for a rainy day. But seriously, if a bird was considered as only a ssp or another is subsequently lumped, at the time you observed the said birds, they were (in)valid ticks. You could always jump lists to gain the extra tick, though.;)
  22. Andy Hurley

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    My lastest is Ross's Goose which rounds me out at 530
  23. Andy Hurley

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    Thanks Larry, thats it, just cuts and bruises, no serious damage. just knees and outside of arms as I tried to shield the camera in the fall
  24. Andy Hurley

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    I got a Black Stork on sunday, along with road rash and a broken telezoom:-C. I tripped over a bit of circular wire lying on the road as I was getting to a better position to photograph.
  25. Andy Hurley

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    My last 3 are Lilac Breasted Roller, Blue Waxbill and Hamerkop all seen in Namibia along with about 150 other lifers. I kept a list as and when I saw them but sometimes there were so many species (mainly new) in a short space of time I couldn't keep up, so I'm trawling through 15000 photos and...
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