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Recent content by alan_cardiff

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    Pallid swift

    Thanks Simon. I'll keep on trying.
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    Pallid swift

    Thanks Simon for a very helpful answer. I'll be at Salgados in the next few days with a dawn start so I'll keep on looking. I was at Abicada marshes this morning and there must have been more than 100 but I couldn't see any with obvious lighter colouration. A great day out there with...
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    Pallid swift

    Can anybody give me a good site for nesting Pallid Swift's in the Algarve, near Portimao. I went to Silves on Thursday but couldn't find any around the castle.
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    Sora in Silves

    Final day before returning home gave me red-legged partridge, serins, black redstart, little owl and best of all a wryneck on a walk around the local golf course and apartment gardens today.
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    Sora in Silves

    Days 6 and 7 at Salgados for Audouins gulls and glossy ibises and Quinta do Rocha for black-shouldered kite.
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    Sora in Silves

    Hi Gavin, if you go to the 2nd posting from Pedro there is a map detailing the Sora's exact position. Take the N124-1 from the A22 motorway to Silves and park near the Roman bridge. It's between the Roman bridge and the road bridge on the North side. You need to be there at low tide as the river...
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    Sora in Silves

    Days 3, 4 and 5 have been spent at Alvor , Quinta do Rocha and, thanks to Goncalo's book 'birding hotspots in the Algarve - Lagos, Paul de Lagos. From the boardwalk at Alvor I had at least 5 bluethroats plus a Dartford warbler in the dunes. Quinta do Rocha for flamingos and spoonbill plus 14...
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    Sora in Silves

    American herring gull still at portimao fish market this morning. Also a juvenile great black-backed gull. 2 lifers in 2 days. Thanks again for everyone's help.
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    Sora in Silves

    Great views of the Sora this afternoon at silves. What a cracking bird. Try for the AHG tomorrow. Thanks to everyone for their help and advice.
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    Sora in Silves

    And I see there's an American herring gull at portimao fish market. Can anyone give me directions to this bird also. Thanks.
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    Sora in Silves

    Thanks Pete and Pedro. Hope it stays until next week.
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    Sora in Silves

    Does anyone know if the Sora has been seen recently. I arrive next Tuesday.
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    Cape Verdi in January

    Thanks Paul. It was reading that article that wetted my appetite.
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    Cape Verdi in January

    I have booked a weeks holiday at the rua karamboa hotel in the north of Boa Vista in the Cape Verdi islands from the 11th Jan. I've done some research and identified 2 areas that I'd like to visit. Praia da Varandinha in the West of the island for tropicbirds and Ilheu de Currel Velho in the...
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    Boa vista Jan 2017

    I have booked a weeks holiday at the rua karamboa hotel in the north of boa vista from the 11th Jan. I've done some research and identified 2 areas that I'd like to visit. Praia da Varandinha in the West of the island for tropicbirds and Ilheu de Currel Velho in the south for the frigatebirds...
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