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  1. MJB

    Birding halfway up the Alps

    Google 'Miro Saniga Wallcreeper Slovakia' to find his website (https://www.saniga.sk/en/Curriculum-vitae/): I'm sure he'll answer all your queries! MJB
  2. MJB

    Birding halfway up the Alps

    You could be right about that call in the autumn, but I've only been in Pygmy Owl country in Spring and early summer! Good to see the small passerines can identify the threat in autumn! MJB
  3. MJB

    Birding halfway up the Alps

    It could prey on your mind on a long journey on single-track roads...! Did you know you can call out a Pygmy Owl when it's holding territory? It's a half-whistled Whoo, Whoo, whoo-whoo-whoo, the first two notes lasting as long as the three rapid notes. It worked for me in Slovakia, but don't do...
  4. MJB

    Birding halfway up the Alps

    A similar thing happened, to Roy Dennis I believe, decades ago when in the middle of the Flow Country in northern Scotland, not a tree for many miles, he had to pause at a strategically placed P-stop, and found an American warbler in the bushes struggling to exist on the sheltered side of the...
  5. MJB

    Birding halfway up the Alps

    Bazinga! Slightly more seriously: "'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' (George Santayana-1905). In a 1948 speech to the House of Commons, Winston Churchill allegedly changed the quote slightly when he said (paraphrased), 'Those who fail to learn from history are...
  6. MJB

    Birding halfway up the Alps

    You're bound to get some who with Liliputian obsession will demand to know the reason you didn't title the thread Birding Halfway Down the Alps and will go on and on about it...**;) MJB **Just my respectful nod to Dean Jonathan Swift who in 1726 adopted the idea that bolied-egg eaters divide...
  7. MJB

    Birding halfway up the Alps

    Good to see a thread on the 'patch' theme: it could develop quite nicely as a rancour-free thread.... Well, it is Christmas, and I'm hoping for the best!:t: MJB
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