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    Olympic Birding List

    I know we're not all out there in the field - some of us are stuck indoors watching the Olympics on TV. So why not combine both? My list so far is: Snowy Egret at the rowing. Southern Lapwing at the Rugby (even discussed by the commentators!) Some hirundine at the Rugby - but just blurs...
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    Birding Peru

    We are currently looking at options for the Cusco - Manu part of our trip. The company we are considering is "Peru Birding Tours", ran by a fellow called Omar Diaz. They offer more days for less cost than some competitors. So how is that possible. The only posted trip reports are all...
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    Flycatcher - N Cyprus

    I had this flycatcher in the ,mountains above Kyrenia in N Cyrprus earlier this month. I initially dismissed it as a bright Spotted Flycatcher but on closer look I am beginning to wonder. The obvious features are the grey-brown upperparts, bright white greater covert bar, the white-edged...
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    Wings ID

    The wing chords is ca.138mm - using the name on the camera strap - found near St Abb's Head in S Scotland. Looked through guides and just can't place the species - feathers may be bleached though - not a recent mortality. Ray
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    Artportalen - Swedish on-line nature reporting system

    Several links tell of the ability to switch the website from Swedish to English - but I can't seem to find how to do this - I recall you could do this easily with Svalan - but that seems to have been superseded. Can anyone help? Ray
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    Odd Thrush

    The probable 1st-winter thrush in the attached photos was seen throughout the winter in a non-birders garden on the NW coast of Scotland. It apparently departed about 3 weeks ago - so no point in anyone trying to twitch it. It only came to light via the local recorder network this week. The...
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    Crossbill and lichen

    I recently videod 2 Common Crossbills perched on an Ash tree nibbling the some species of foliose lichen that grew on the trunk - they were definitely eating them, mainuplating them with their bills and swallowing bits of them. Lichens are not mentioned as a food in BWP - can anyone shed light...
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    SW Turkey - May 2014

    Please see three attachments with trip report for visit to Dalyan, Bafa Golu, Pammukale & Kalkan in mid-May to early June 2014. Ray Murray
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    Odd duck - Coldstream, Borders

    I had this odd duck yesterday at the Hirsel lake in the Borders. Size-wise was definitely Teal/Gargeney (see composite image with neighbouring Mallard) - but the plumage doesn't match either. The speculum was greenish but it lacks the eye-striping of a female Garganey as well as the pale spot at...
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    Demise of Birding World ???

    Either I am wholly mis-reading something but the editorial at the front of the latest Birding World that arrived today - suggests that next months issue will be the LAST. Can anyone help with this - it MAY mean some sort of upgrade but the wording implies they have had enough and that will be...
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    Canada Goose race

    This pair of Canadas turned up in a roost of about 20,000 Pink-feet just south of Edinburgh, Scotland. Thinking from distant views that they may be Cackling Canadas, and knowing that Pinks might have dragged 'genuine' birds with them from Baffin Is/Greenland, I trawled the feeding areas until I...
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    Black Redstart - ageing

    This bird is one of a party of 3-5 birds, possibly a family party, that appeared in an upland area in southern Scotland - where breeing is NOT known (Scotland only has 2 previous breeding reports). It is clearly a juvenile (yellow gape remnant still showing) and some remains of the...
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    Getting deaf - anyone tried BirdFinder ???

    I'm having a horrible spring - it's so quiet - except for road traffic. I realise my hearing has taken a nose-dive over the last few months .... but talk about a Silent Spring! While I see my consultant in a fortnight - I'm not encouraged by the on-line comments that hearing aids usually miss...
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    Nectar-feeding in House Sparrows

    Whenon holiday in Tavira in the Algarve in Portugal last month - I was entertained when sitting on our balcony by watching House Sparrows constantly visiting a large border of Bottle-brush Callistemon at the edge of the car park. You had to be careful brushing against the shrubs as copious...
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    Coto Donana - El Rocio

    I've just got back from Spain and Portugal and there are a few issues that anyone visiting the Donana soon would probably like to learn. The first is that winter/spring 2013 has been very wet and that the lagoon at El Rocio (and elsewhere) is pretty full. Accordingly the amazing display of...
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    Raptor in Aljento

    In anticipation of returning to Castro Verde in Portugal this spring I went through my pics and I came upon this puzzling raptor I got an image of in 2011. Forgotten all about it. It was taken at Guerreiro in May 2011 Structure looks like Buzzard but colour-scheme is odd Any ideas - or just...
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    Odd Quail- in Borders

    This appeared in garden in the Borders this week - it looks lik an odd quail but not Coturnix coturnix, or any of the other Coturnix sp. I suspect it is some kind of domestic variant but can't pin it down. Anyone out there recognise it? It was very tame. Ray Murray
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    Hoopoe in background of TV programme

    Anyone who watched 'Countryfile' on BBC1 today may have noticed that during the 'Adam's Farm' section on his oil seed rape fields that there was a Hoopoe calling in the background. I really don't think the BBC dub on extraneous wildlife sounds - so there may be a good local record out there for...
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    Odd pipit, St Abb's Head, Scotland

    This bird was seen on 13th April. Unfortunately no vocalisations. It was a little larger than the Meadow Pipit that it chased off but was not felt to be as big as one of the large pipits like Richard's, a species which the observer was familiar with. The extent of the streaking and size of the...
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