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Recent content by mavis smith

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    cruelty to birds abroad - where best to report it?

    Hello all, just returned from Tunisia where I saw what looked like a booted eagle kept in a totally inadequate and dirty cage outside the Sahara Beach hotel in Skanes. It looked in reasonably good condition but the cage wasn`t big enough for it to move about in freely - probably only about 5...
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    Southern Turkey

    Thanks for that - I have seen an area which looks ok for a family holiday in Belek. Migrants on the move would be most accaptable. Mavis.
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    Southern Turkey

    Hi, Anyone been birding in the usual holiday resorts around S. Turkey in early March? Failing that, how about Egypt`s Red sea area. Enjoyed Eilat but found the airport interrogation very intimidating. Any info gratefully received. Mavis.
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    Christmas in the Balearics.

    Hi Andrew, I`ve been to Majorca (Puerta Pollensa) in early November specifically to see the difference as previous visits were at spring/autumn migration times. There were still things like Avocet, Osprey, Purple heron and various egrets, common waders, wildfowl at S`albufera. Saw common Crane...
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    Kissimmee state park, florida

    Hi, anyone stayed in Kissimmee and tried to get here using public transport? Stayed in Orlando last time and no bus/taxi drivers had heard of it. Reception staff were less than helpful - saying they`d never heard of it - even when I pointed to it on a map pinned on the wall in front of them...
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    hello

    Hi again, nice to meet birders who haven`t had a sense of humour bypass. Kevin, I didn`t write a book on birds in Lancashire - just a humble booklet with Dave Pack about birds of Sunnyhurst woods and then same again for birds in Darwen during a particular year. I wrote a weekly column in my...
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    hello

    I should have got round to this earlier but a belated hello to all. I`m based in Lancashire and patrol my patch on the West Pennine moors daily with a particular interest in visible migration. I`ve been a monthly contibutor to Birdwatching magazine for over 15 years and when I`m not oop here in...
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