Any birds in or around Basel, Switzerland (1 Viewer)

[scodger]

Hi

I'm sure there are! I'm in Basel on business Thursday but may get some time on Fri 18th Jan 2008 for a mooch around, though I'll be on foot. If any local birder has a few hours to show me round I''ll buy lunch, or can tell me if there are any sites around the city I'd be grateful

Cheers

Scodger

 

[Marmot]

We do have a member that lives in Switzerland but don't know where {Ken Billington} I have sent him a PM to point out this thread to see if he knows of anywhere around Basel.

 

[Ken Billington]

Hi Scodger, although I'm living at the other side of Switzerland, I can inform you about the Ornithological Society in Basel:
http://www.ogbasel.ch/
Coincidentally there is an excursion on Friday 18th January starting at 08.30. You might want to mail the president and ask for an invitation:
Jean-Pierre.Biber 'at' natcons.ch
Good luck and hope you have an interesting day in Basel.
Best regards
Ken Billington

 

[wintibird]

We do have several members living in Switzerland...
I don't live in Basel but I can recommend you one site which you can easily reach. Take the tram Nr. 8 to Kleinhühningen (final station). Go out and walk down the small river to the harbour. You will reach the Rhine soon. You can go right, until you reach a deadpoint where the boats usually start in summer. You can see waterfowl here, including a wintering Lesser Scaup (if you are lucky). Herons and sometimes Great Egret may be seen here too.

If you look for someone to go out birding with you, place a request in the Swiss birding newsgroup. You will need to subscribe first (free) sending an empty mail to club300mail-subscribeATyahoogroups.de. Then send your mail to club300mailATyahoogroups.de (just replace the AT with @). You can easily unsubscribe later with an empty mail to club300mail-unsubscribeATyahoogroups.de

Greetings from Switzerland
André