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    Mallorca 2024

    I totally agree about Great Tits- they can fool you into believing that almost any unknown/rare bird is around. This reminds me that as I came out of church in Northampton ten days ago I heard the distinct call of a Buzzard- scanning the sky I failed to locate the bird but the calls continued...
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    Mallorca 2024

    Thanks once again for keeping up the news from Mallorca, Mike. I doubt I shall make it this year but you never know! Pouring with rain and very dreary here in Northampton, but my daily read of the forum reminds me of better weather and exotic birds- although Bee-eater is now on my British list...
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    Mallorca 2023

    Nice pix- but where was the White Stork?.........
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    Mallorca 2023

    Hello again from wet Northampton and 13 degrees. On the last point about Marsh Harriers I remember going to Norfolk on holiday one year at about this time, and not seeing many Marsh Harriers at all at coastal reserves such as Cley Marshes compared to expectations. The answer came in an article...
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    Mallorca 2023

    Years ago the wires along the rough lane behind the Pollentia/Uyal hotels was the place to get views of Scops Owls- but you needed to put in time to establish the routines of the particular birds.....
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    Mallorca 2023

    Hi Tris- to repeat a sad story often rehearsed on this site, there were Scops Owls in Port de Pollenca, often in the area you quote near the Guardia Civil barracks by the sea front childrens playground at the Carrer de la Xarxa, just south of La Gola. The breeding site varied but in 2010 I...
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    Mallorca 2023

    There was an article in The Times recently about the Formentor Hotel and it stated that it was being "modernised" by demolition! It also implied some rather questionable actions by the local authorities involved. I thought that it was protected due to it's architectural merit. We used to go on...
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    Mallorca 2023

    Slightly away from the present but I got a present on Friday as a belated Christmas gift from my younger son- a copy of the art book "Birds in Mallorca" by John Busby from 1988 (second-hand but still in excellent condition). He has a very distinctive style which brings the birds to life, but I...
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    Mallorca 2023

    Thanks so much for keeping this forum going, Mike- I am also now 72 and I don't see a visit being on this year- but you never know. At least I am not restricted to school/university holidays anymore! Just popping out to hopefully see the two overwintering Yellow-browed Warblers near Northampton...
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    Mallorca 2022

    Re message 1125 I think we must be fair to the various owners and managers at the Pollensa Park Hotel over the years. Although the Scops Owls were seen and heard over the years in and around the PPHotel the nest site was in the louvres at the back of the POLLENTIA Hotel on the sea front, and it...
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    Mallorca 2022

    HI again- we used a company called Vanrell in Alcudia for the last few times we were in Mallorca. You book online and can arrange to pick up the car to suit your needs (they have a few sites in different places). The guy in the office was English and able to deal easily with any queries. The car...
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    Mallorca 2022

    Hello again from Northampton....and the sad tale of Scops Owls in Port de Pollenca. When I first visited in 2000 the first bird I heard was a Scops as we arrived at about 2200 and they were fairly easy to see on lampposts in the area of the Guardia Civil, although I can't recall the actual nest...
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    Mallorca 2022

    What was covered in clingfilm Mike- you, the door or your lunch? Sorry- it's the old teacher in me coming out. Thanks for keeping us Mallorcaphiles up to date. Hugh Matthews- Northampton
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    Mallorca 2021

    Hello again- I have a couple of the Mallorca Bird Reports- the ones for 1999 and 2000, but by the time I first came to Mallorca in 2000 the meetings were at the Pollentia hotel in Port de Pollenca on Mondays and Fridays and were led by David Wellings. However, the hotel was getting worried about...
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    Mallorca 2021

    Sorry for interrupting the seawatching discussion but for us landlocked and frustrated Mallorcaphiles the episode on BBC1 today of the Mallorca Files (geddit?) was about a missing birder and had lots of intercutting from Albufera, Albufereta and Port de Pollenca as well as some bird interest- I...
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