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Recent content by Sam Bryo

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    Grey-headed Woodpeckers in Rhineland

    Thankyou David. Wahner Heide looks like interesting habitat for me to go birding in, so I will add that to my agenda for the day I drive east. I will be staying in the Namur/Liege area of Belgium so probably won’t go as far as Sauerland.
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    Grey-headed Woodpeckers in Rhineland

    There were, but a lot of them were from the 1960s so hardly hot gen ;-)
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    Grey-headed Woodpeckers in Rhineland

    Thankyou David. That sounds like a good start.
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    Grey-headed Woodpeckers in Rhineland

    Are there any sites in westernmost Germany where I might be able to find Grey-headed Woodpecker? I’m visiting the area for a few days later this autumn and it’s one of the few Western European species I haven’t see yet. eBird shows very few recent records from the Koln/Bonn area, and those from...
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    Canary Islands virgins!

    >>Can't recommend this highly enough: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fuerteventura-Tour-Trail-Super-Durable-Map/dp/1782750525/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1551513265&sr=1-1&keywords=fuerteventura+map I completely agree, it’s a really super, accurate map. I don’t think the same company make one for...
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    Canary Islands virgins!

    I booked my Binter flight in late December, two months in advance, for £85. I’m glad to hear you are staying in the north of both islands. The south of both may well be better for week-long trips with scope for finding vagrants/migrants, but the north works well for the endemics. Planning trips...
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    Canary Islands virgins!

    Hi Chris - I’m just back from a 5 night trip to the Canaries: 2 on Fuerteventura and 3 on Tenerife. An afternoon Binter flight from FV to the north TN airport was very easy. Staying in N Fuerteventura seemed ideal as it’s a very long drive to the south and getting all your targets in a couple of...
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    2017 Western Palearctic Big Year

    They have made mistakes, for sure, but their Big Year has still been immensely entertaining to read about and they have done tremendously well. Someone (probably one person rather than a trio) will beat their target, maybe next year or the year after, and we will all enjoy reading their exploits...
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    2017 Western Palearctic Big Year

    >]Ok, they've removed the Ruppell's Vulture tick. Dick Forsman has confirmed it was a regular Vulture. This puts them in a tricky position, as they now need to decide whether to return to Iberia for Ruppell's Vulture or accept it as missed. If they hadn't ticked this misidentified bird they...
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    Mono Lake & Sierra Nevada - May 2017

    I have just added a trip report to www.cloudbirders.com covering my 10 day trip to central California in May 2017. It's quite long, with an annotated checklist and various bits and pieces on the sites I visited, so I hope it will be useful for anyone planning a May visit to this wonderful state...
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    Pasadena - one day free in mid-June

    The Chilao visitor centre is a good way in to the San Gabriels. If you arrive early and the feeders have been stocked-up recently you've a good chance of Mountain Quail (I saw a singing one mid morning, but was very lucky to spot it in the chaparral); Band-tailed Pigeon, Acorn 'peckers etc are...
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    Mono Lake & Sierra Nevada - May 2017

    I have just returned from my 10 day trip to central California, and thought it might be useful to anyone visiting the area in the near future to hear about a few sites where I saw key species. I will put full lists on eBird soon, but realistically not in the next couple of weeks, and will...
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    Mono Lake & Sierra Nevada - May 2017

    One last thing - are there phone numbers to report county/state rarities so that they go on to the List Servers? I won't have email access on my trip, except perhaps in the evening, and it would be a shame if I stumbled across something special and couldn't let anyone know. An hour searching...
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    Mono Lake & Sierra Nevada - May 2017

    After a couple of months more planning - and reports of a lot of terrible weather in California - I am sure that my plan to cross from Mono Lake to Yosemite via Tioga Pass in late May isn't going to happen. Correlating snow levels at Mammoth and the Tioga Pass opening times for the last 30...
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    2017 Western Palearctic Big Year

    - Yes they were errors in identification apparently see link and attached. many thanks Paul: a very interesting paper, and helpful w.r.t. the Kuwait bird
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