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    Birding & Wildlife Watching in Wonderful Guyana

    These are notes that I've put together to help people who want info. on wonderful Guyana. In my quest as a biologist to see ’everything I’ve read about and seen on wildlife films’, I’ve been lucky to travel to quite a few places in the world and Guyana is, as we say in Wales, extremely tidy...
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    Some notes on birding in Cuba

    In March-April this year (2015), spent 30 days solo driving around western and central Cuba. It was brilliant, not least due to lovely Cuban people. These notes originate as a response to a specific query about birding in Cuba. I'll attempt to make them more coherent and expand them when I have...
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    Cuban Bird Guides

    In March-April this year (2015), spent 30 days solo driving around western and central Cuba. It was brilliant, not least due to lovely Cuban people. At Playa Larga, I would recommend Angel Martinez. With him I saw Bee Hummingbird, Zapata Sparrow, Zapata Wren, Blue-headed and Grey-headed Quail...
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    Thomas Cook hand luggage allowances

    I flew Thomas Cook in January 2014. Hand luggage weighed at just over 5kg at Gatwick, but no problem. They were reweighing at the gate, where I saw a Gambian woman heavily penalised for excess - she left most the stuff. Wore a photo-gilet with pockets stuffed (teleconverters, charger, batteries...
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    Makasutu and Kartong

    Hi Clive, I heard about the Hudsonian Whimbrel from Colin Cross, when I spent a morning at Kartong (5th Jan, 2014). Couple of Harrier pics from Kartong: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hoppy1951/12569698895/in/set-72157640245776115 &...
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    Gambian guide recommendations

    I recommend Yaya Barry of Kingbirders: http://www.geopictures.net/kingbirders/ He arranged all of my 3 week trip last month, January 2014 (see separate thread). I went out with him to Kartong, Mandinaba & Farasuto, Lamin Bolong and fields, then Tujereng Woods. Yaya has been bird watching &...
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    The Gambia trip report January 2014 - logistics

    Here you go Mike! http://www.flickr.com/photos/hoppy1951/12657095975/
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    Makasutu and Kartong

    Spent a morning at Kartong a few weeks ago (05/01/14). Hundreds of White-faced Whistling-Duck, African Fish-Eagle & lots more. The sort of place that can turn up all sorts e.g. Northern Carmine Bee-eater reported a week later. Colin Cross has a house with a private hide and cold drinks. Recently...
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    The Gambia trip report January 2014 - logistics

    Thanks, Mike. The African Wild Cat images will need a little work - I was on foot, in poor shaded early morning light and it was on the track ca. 100m off. What a buzz!
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    up coming trip to gambia

    Try Abdoulie Barry (30 year old ex-footballer nickname: Sedorf) with his almost new 4X4. I spent a week up river with him last month (January, 2014). He doesn't claim to be an official bird guide, but he knows all the birding hotspots, has very good eyes, his own bins and very good birding...
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    The Gambia trip report January 2014 - logistics

    I'm not long back from a 3 week solo trip to The Gambia in January 2014. Last there in November 1996, when only Banjul had one tarmaced road! At 62, I'm now a very experienced wildlife traveller and often enjoy the considerable benefits of travelling solo e.g. meeting more local people, having...
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