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  1. l_raty

    Green Listing 2022 - Joint Thread

    Here you are, then : https://www.birdforum.net/threads/green-listing-2023-joint-thread.434714/
  2. l_raty

    Green Listing 2022 - Joint Thread

    Not used to do this either. Does this work ? (I mean, did I do the right things so that everyone can edit it ?) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16ywjYzwi5FT3ab-PNSe-VcG6xZlBsShIp2IdU76YQwA/edit?usp=sharing
  3. l_raty

    Green Listing 2022 - Joint Thread

    Not a "Jan-1st guy" myself, as I tend to spend New Year with (at least) my wife -- who, although she can enjoy looking at birds, won't get up early and race after them on the first day of the year. I cycled to the coast on 30 Dec (which was quite definitely after "the last nice day of" 2022) and...
  4. l_raty

    Green Listing 2022 - Joint Thread

    Hi James, Of course, adding gear to what you carry will affect your cycling efficiency, to some extent at least, and it's probably up to you to decide what you regard as acceptable. I carry my binoculars on a rather long strap which I pass above my head and a shoulder, so that I can either...
  5. l_raty

    Green Listing 2022 - Joint Thread

    Pallas's and Hume's Warblers at the same site in Ghent yesterday. (Record shots here -- pitiful quality, light was ok an hour earlier, but I was still on the road then.)
  6. l_raty

    Green Listing 2022 - Joint Thread

    Yes, I've already ended up walking next to my bike a couple of times in that particular slope (it's just after Dinant -- to leave the Meuse valley)... But on this day, I got the news that the bird was still there just before starting climbing -- this helped a bit. ;)
  7. l_raty

    Green Listing 2022 - Joint Thread

    I saw that one in 't Zwin back then. (Or its companion -- they were two initially in NL.) (1989... Showing our ages, I guess.) The most distant twitch I ever did on a bike "in one day" (i.e., without at least stopping somewhere to sleep a few hours) was this : [route], [sightings]. (You won't...
  8. l_raty

    Green Listing 2022 - Joint Thread

    I was wondering about this possibility, actually. (Which is why I didn't add the species myself to the joint list.) 33 species that I haven't seen this year have been seen in Belgium in the last 7 days, so there should still be some fun to have out there. :) Still missing Scaup too...
  9. l_raty

    Green Listing 2022 - Joint Thread

    Dreaming of a Harlequin Duck... ;)
  10. l_raty

    Green Listing 2022 - Joint Thread

    Cycled back from the High Fens (E Belgium) on Tuesday as planned; went to see the White-headed Duck that is currently present in Harchies (some 80 km SW of Brussels) yesterday. The ride back from Harchies included 4 hours in heavy rain and wind (in the dark), so was a bit rough... ;) I already...
  11. l_raty

    Green Listing 2022 - Joint Thread

    Currently in E Belgium (some 140 km east of home). Huge numbers of Cranes over the last two days, Black Grouse, and a couple of other species I had not seen this year yet. Still here today, riding back tomorrow. Slightly foggy currently, and rain is to come, so I may well end up soaked at some...
  12. l_raty

    Green Listing 2022 - Joint Thread

    A stop at the 6th Belgian Isabelline Wheatear yesterday, while cycling back from the coast to Brussels, added that species to the Europe and World lists. My 3rd one, after one in Limburg in the spring of 2010 and one on the coast in the fall of 2013. (Not counting a car-assisted observation in...
  13. l_raty

    Green Listing 2022 - Joint Thread

    Twitched a Booted Warbler yesterday. (Bruxelles-Zeebrugge, a bit in a hurry because the news that the bird was still there did not break out very early, then Zeebrugge-Koksijde -- legs not overly happy right now... ;))
  14. l_raty

    Green Listing 2022 - Joint Thread

    We never had any "real" flamingo in Belgium so far, unfortunately.
  15. l_raty

    Green Listing 2022 - Joint Thread

    Odd. I thought I had checked the joint the lists for the birds that are in my own list not too long ago... I guess I did it with the joint World list only. A couple of things that are not in the list because they are not birds / not species / not regarded as countable here: A Humpback Whale...
  16. l_raty

    Green Listing 2022 - Joint Thread

    I'd say if a location becomes your fixed address, then any sighting obtained using non-motorised transports from this location might arguably be seen as "green" -- including any sighting that would date from before this address was 'officially' fixed. Any rule will be arbitrary, anyway. ;) (A...
  17. l_raty

    Green Listing 2022 - Joint Thread

    I just added to the combined World list the species I saw in recent weeks, but where lacking in it. This took the combined list up to 231. (It's still too low, though: the European list stands at 216, and there are obviously more than 15 strictly American species spp listed in the N America tab.)
  18. l_raty

    Green Listing 2022 - Joint Thread

    Twitched an American Golden Plover (only my second in Belgium, and a wholly new 'green' species for me) on last Monday. I was on the coast for a while in the previous weeks too -- grabbed a few things like Black-winged Stilt, Little Bunting, Great Reed Warbler, Savi's Warbler... And had a...
  19. l_raty

    Green Listing 2022 - Joint Thread

    This morning. :) Not very sharp, sorry. The bird is pretty showy, but quite flighty most of the time -- it sat on the pier just once and for less than a minute while I was there. For slightly better pics (of the bird, not of my bicycle ;)), see here.
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