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Merlin picked up a Flammulated Owl on my walk with the dog last week. Only problem is, it was in East Lothian. I don’t know what a Flammulated Owl sounds like so I can’t tell what call it was misidentifying. Recently had Osprey, actually Nuthatch, and Grey Plover, actually Song Thrush, picked up by the app.

David
Now listened to Flammulated Owl song on eBird. It was a what we Scots call “a dug” (Canis familiaris).

David
 
Still around in the Netherlands, managed to getup to the Lauwersmeer yesterday. I didn't have all the time that I would have like to spend there, but managed a couple of new ticks. Green-winged Teal, Pied Avocet and what I was most stoked about were some Black-winged
Stilt
. On of the Stilts was sitting on a nest, would have been need to see some tiny ones I guess, but too early :ROFLMAO:
 
Got two lifers on Thursday, managed to finally connect with a little gull which was a nemesis of mine. Red-breasted goose was fantastic as well, too distant for decent photos but great views from the scope. Also saw a bunch of harder to see waders and waterfowl + saw flocks of hundreds of brent's flying over the reserve as the sun was setting which was awesome.
 

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I managed to come home with six lifers in one day - the joy of being a relatively new birder, things don't have to be extraordinarily unusual for me to have never knowingly seen them before!

Little Ringed Plover
Greenshank
Lesser Yellowlegs
Garganey
Black-winged Stilt
Bearded Tit
 
I managed to come home with six lifers in one day - the joy of being a relatively new birder, things don't have to be extraordinarily unusual for me to have never knowingly seen them before!

Little Ringed Plover
Greenshank
Lesser Yellowlegs
Garganey
Black-winged Stilt
Bearded Tit
Frampton marsh?
 
On my second Carribbean Holiday of the year this time in the Dom Rep again with the wife so birding mainly around the hotel and excursions we go on I've again booked a guide for a days birding to Parquet Nacional Cotubanama.
1st morning walk produce 5 lifers.
Grey Kingbird
Hispaniolan Woodpecker
Caribbean Martin
Palmchat
Antillean Mango
also there's a colony of Village Weavers but won't be ticking it.
However today's highlight was a very large swimming Tarantula.
 
I love it when I'm at home and I all of a sudden hear a completely unfamiliar birdsong different from all the other backyard birds I've heard a million times before. This morning I heard a lively sing-song tune unfamiliar to me. Grabbed the binocs and noticed a Baltimore Oriole singing it's pleasant song at the very top of my neighbor's tree! A first for me. I'm located in San Antonio, for reference.

Bird #110 for me (just started in October).
 

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