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  1. lazza

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    Back from a family holiday to Walt Disney World in Florida, and in between riding rollercoasters and meeting Mickey & his pals, I managed to make a bit of progress on my world Life List! Of the 46 species I saw, a rather pleasing 28 were lifers, and in fact, I passed 500 species on the trip (not...
  2. lazza

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    Bloody hell, like! Three lifers in 2 hours during a work trip to Finland this week!!! And at the same site - Viikki Nature Reserve - where I got two lifers a year ago! What a phenomenal place :) SO, the lifers were: 467. Red-footed falcon 468. Bluethroat 469. Thrush Nightingale Just amazing!
  3. lazza

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    Rather delighted to get a lifer on a business trip to Switzerland last week. I was in the Valais canton for a couple of days, and one evening, I headed up to a small village called Les Marécottes (Salvan) which is at c1400m, in the mountains above Martigny, where I was staying. I was hoping to...
  4. lazza

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    My ninth and tenth lifers of the year on my recent holiday in Spain: 456: Great Spotted Cuckoo 457: Black-eared Wheatear
  5. lazza

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    Finally, finally knocked off one of the commoner species missing from my UK list, and in the most surprising of circumstances: a fabulous Long-eared Owl seen perched on a road-side fence-post while driving home through North Yorkshire last week, causing a rapid braking, scrabbling in my glove...
  6. lazza

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    I'm still in shock! Who would have thought a work trip to Scandinavia would give me not one, not two, not even three.... but FOUR lifers!! Two days in Sweden and two in Finland, quite busy with meetings, but not so full as to not allow a bit of birding, especially with 20+ hours of daylight...
  7. lazza

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    First lifer of 2015 added this week, with my first marbled duck finally seen at El Hondo reserve in Spain.
  8. lazza

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    One lifer added on my recent holiday in Spain: Booted Eagle That takes me to 444 globally (266 in Europe).
  9. lazza

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    This doesn't happen very often.... but four lifers added to my list last week! Had a trip to Norway and Finland for some client meetings. In Norway, I managed an hour at Fetsund, just east of Oslo, on the way back to the airport, and added: 438. Lesser spotted woodpecker Than, the next day, I...
  10. lazza

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    Double woopdedoop! Another "common" bird finally ticked off my list! Seen on a recent trip to Switzerland with work (so, OK, it's not on my UK list yet) - my first Eurasian Bittern :)
  11. lazza

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Woopdedoop! Finally, perhaps the most "common" bird missing from my UK list: my first ever Eurasian Woodcock, flushed from dunes at Blyth in Northumberland yesterday when out exploring with my kids!
  12. lazza

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Two (or three) lifers on my recent holiday near Alicante in Spain. Firstly a pair of stone curlew seen twice in the same location near El Hondo nature reserve, and then a spotted redshank on Santa Pola salinas. Also, a first confirmed sighting of a night heron, again at El Hondo (my previous...
  13. lazza

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    A quite unexpected addition yesterday on a cycle ride out from my in-laws' place near Alicante in Spain. I decided to take a late afternoon ride to El Hondo, but had very little time to stay long enough to expect anything unusual, but on the way there, two mystery birds took off from a track I...
  14. lazza

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    At last, a long wished-for bird. Had my first absolute definite peregrine falcon last weekend on Lindisfarne in the UK.
  15. lazza

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Two new lifers in a week :) Neither is all that rare, but both gave prolonged close views and were well worth the effort! Firstly, a water rail at Rutland Water a couple of weeks back, and then a bearded tit in Hyde Park last week :t:
  16. lazza

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    And before I left Spain, two more lifers added: Purple Swamphen at El Hondo (my 400th life bird) and Pallid Swift
  17. lazza

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    On our annual holiday near Alicante and been making an effort to fit in some birding...and have managed 5 lifers! First was a Little Bittern at El Hondo reserve, which spent a couple of minutes perched at the top of some tall reeds. Then a newly irrigated field in farmland near Elche contained...
  18. lazza

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Icterine Warbler at Echinger Stausee near Munich. Great song!
  19. lazza

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    My Swiss employers very kindly arranged our annual sales meeting in Les Marécottes in the mountains in the Valais region of Switzerland, so have been here all week. On the first afternoon I had a little time to go for a walk, and got life species number 390: black woodpecker Really big compared...
  20. lazza

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Short-toed treecreepers in the trees in Fernay-Voltaire, France.
  21. lazza

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    On a roll....today's lifer: Golden Plover at Prestwick Carr, Northumberland. A huge - and growing - flock circling over the fields calling, before disappearing out of sight to the north. You see, it's easy to get them when you're a relative novice! (Although I'm rather pleased that it takes my...
  22. lazza

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    Red Crossbill, today at Harwood Forest in Northumberland. Dozens of them!
  23. lazza

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Three lifers for me last week at El Hondo reserve in Spain: White-headed duck Black-necked grebe Whiskered tern In fact, the last two of these I had noted as "possibly" seen once before, but now I can tick as definitely seen :)
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