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    Pan Species Listers anywhere?

    Not checked in here for a long time, and it's amazing what difference 5 years makes...! Total: 1186 2908 (+1722) Birds: 476 579 (+103) Plants: 324 844 (+520) Arthropods: 208 1044 (+836!) Mammals: 65 84 (+19) Fungi: 46 153 (+107) Reptiles & Amphibians: 16 42 (+26) Fish: 11 48 (+37) Chromista: 7...
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    5 Days in Singapore: Best Birding Places

    Interesting... I was overlapping with you! I was there on-and-off between 19 September and 2nd October. Would like to know where you went and what you saw. Fitting in birding between customer meetings and travel to other parts of SE Asia, I was pleased to hit 50 species including 32 lifers...
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    Lazza's 2019 list

    Also in April, our annual trip to the mother-in-law's house near ALicante. A decent count of 73 species for the Spring trip, including a lifer on the building site next to the house! El Altet: 1. Kestrel 2. Woodpigeon Sant Pola Salinas 3. Yellow-legged gull 4. Greater Flamingo* 5. Coot 6...
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    Lazza's 2019 list

    Also, in April, I visited a new country, with a work trip to Egypt(!) allowing me to start a new country list!! With work commitments and no opportunity to explore, the list was rather short, but it's a start: Around the hotel in Heliopolis: 1. Laughing dove 2. Hooded crow 3. House sparrow 4...
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    Lazza's 2019 list

    April additions to the UK list... Dunces Houses Lane, Morpeth: 94. Chiffchaff (on 23/03) Penwortham: 95. Whitethroat (on 19 April) 96. Raven! Stobhill, Morpeth, in and around the garden: 97. Blackcap 98. House Martin (20 APr) 99. Barn swallow (21 Apr) And all the following at Druridge Pools...
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    Lazza's 2019 list

    So, my initial promise to keep my list updated more regularly seems to have been rather hollow.... Nevertheless, I'm going to try to update the whole list now....!! March, UK list update: Firstly at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea: 87. Mediterranean gull 88. Great black-backed gull 89. Guillemot 90...
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    Last 3 ticks whats yours?

    6 lifers so far in 2019, the last three being: - Savi's warbler, in Serbia - Striated heron, in Abu Dhabi - Terek sandpiper, in Abu Dhabi
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    Birding in Alicante Province

    Often a good place for Stone Curlew, but did they clear up the enormous, dreadful fly-tipping area at the bend in the road, yet?!
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    Abu Dhabi work trip

    As a continuation of this thread, I was back in UAE again a few weeks back with work, and planned my time and travel rather more carefully to see if I could get to some better birding locations. To be honest, I had the same issues as last time, so still had limited opportunities, but I still...
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    Bringing binoculars into Saudi Arabia.

    I traveled to Saudi last year (for work) and wondered about this myself for a long time before my trip. In the end, I followed the UK Government advice (on the FCO website) which - at that time - advised against taking binoculars which could be confiscated. Even without bins and with a focus on...
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    Birding in Alicante Province

    I guess I'm probably a bit late for you, as it's now the end of the month, but I would agree with Mark for good places to see Roller. The road to the monastery from the bend in the CV853 is usually a cert! There is often a pair nearer to the CV853 - perhaps half way between the junction and the...
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    Lazza's 2019 list

    Trip to London yesterday, and a visit to a customer in Brentford, where I added: 83. Ring-necked parakeet 84. Egyptian goose 85. Grey wagtail And then back home, this morning, nice to hear a singing: 86. Song thrush
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    Lazza's 2019 list

    After a couple of days of meetings, I briefly called in at a couple of decent stop-offs on the way to the airport. Firstly, Lavey-les-Bains, adding: 30. Dipper 31. Marsh tit Then a clomp through the snow at Col de Forclaz: 32. Willow tit* 33. Coal tit 34. Raven* 35. Crossbill * not on a...
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    Lazza's 2019 list

    Last week, had another work trip to Switzerland, to our factory in the Valais region. As usual, I took the scenic route via Geneva, along the southern edge of Lake Geneva and over the Pas de Morgins into the Valais canton. Geneva Airport: 14. House sparrow 15. Wood pigeon Geneva plage: 16...
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    Lazza's 2019 list

    I then had a couple of hours late afternoon wandering the dunes and shore of Rossbeigh beach (peninsula?), which was very pleasant indeed, if not a little windy. It also added a good few species to my lifetime Irish list, and several new species for the year: 20. Common scoter* - new for Irish...
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