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    Olympic Birding List

    Black Skimmer feeding in background to rowing medal ceremonies. Ray
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    Olympic Birding List

    Also lots of Neotropical Cormorants at sailing - flocks of them. Also some terns there - not a clue. Think I have an ID of the rugby hirundine - Brown-chested Martin ?? - screen-grab attached. I'll look forward to finding a Burrowing Owl - doubtless clobbered by a golf ball! Ray
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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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    Birds of Peru, Schulenberg, et al. Rev. Ed. 2010, Quick Index

    Here's an Excel Trip List I've made to deal with the taxonomic sequence and the issues caused by Schulenberg et al. not using the IOC sequence for the plates. Hope it helps when you do your daily diary. Should be self explanatory. Ray
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    Which wheatear? Turkey.

    Immature Black-eared - subsp. mealnoleuca - older than 1st-winter but not adult
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    Which sparrow ? Sweden

    If you're puzzled about the name - in a village on the shore of Lake Maleren I know well, to the west of Stockholm, Tree Sparrows nest under the roofs of many houses. They are also the urban sparrow in eastern Asia.
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    Gull, St Abbs, Scotland

    Adult Lesser Black-backed R
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    Willow Warbler or Chiffchaff.

    Juv Willow and adult Chiff in heavy moult. R.
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    Do people still use a birding journal or is there a digital option?

    BirdTrack is fairly straightforward - you have to define a site using a Google Maps link, Once that site is in your system you can add records as 'casual' or a 'list' - it opens to a list that you either tick or proved a count. Each new site needs defining. You can download your records at any...
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    Common or Lesser Whitethroat? (France)

    Common Whitethroat pale legs - rufous fringes to tertials - eye ring. Head patter Lesser-like though - but clearly Common.
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    UK, Devon. Coal Tit with Melanism ?

    Here is another - taken also in January - the ringers reckoned that the outer contour feathers had been lost revealing the black, fluffier insulating feathering underneath
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    Black kite or Marsh harrier

    Buzzard - no sign of a Rough-legged
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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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    Jaisalmer birds

    Surely a Tawny Eagle - the vulture would have a white tail.
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    Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)

    eastern Spotted Flycatchers I came upon this bird - image attached - in the mountains above Kyrenia in North Cyprus in October. It was so unlike the Spot Flys seen in western Europe that I was flummoxed for a while. I gather that it may well be a neumanni, the eastern race that is...
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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

    Peter Of course - it's the colour that put me off. The shape is perfect for an auk. Puffins nest within 2kms. My thanks. Ray
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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

    Stuart Good man ! I suspected it was there somewhere = you wonder why developer don't make these things more obvious. Hopefully will help me get some goodies on Gotland next week Thanks again 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

    Gordon, the snow was melting and there were puddles available but they could have eaten the snow in any event. The lichens were a species of Parmelia, not especially mossy as such. Nutcracker, as Crossbill are only just arriving in Borders (as I'm sure they may be in Northumberland), and the...
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    Crossbill and lichen

    Have uploaded video file of birds feeding - very dark, I'm afraaid because of the gloomy day - but behavious obvious. Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7reBvwj9xdw&feature=youtu.be
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    Crossbill and lichen

    Thanks NearlyNoviceBirder =- Yes these pics are precisely what my birds were doing, right down to th same family of lichen - the only difference is that your trees is an oak and mine was an ash. If this behaviour is that uncommon, not to appear in the food section of BWP, it may be worth doing...
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    Mudumalai, Tamil Nadu, India - Raptor

    Short-toed Eagle - even down to the hovering.
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