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  1. dbradnum

    Arctic Finland & Norway, March / April 2012

    It's taken me a ridiculously long time to complete (due to procrastination, not the great effort required), but here's a write up of a brilliant trip up to the top of Scandinavia from spring last year. The presence of one of the area's local birders (Tormod Amundsen, on tour with Martin Garner)...
  2. dbradnum

    Canary Islands, Christmas 2011

    Hi, I've just completed a trip report from the 12 days that Suzanne and I spent on Fuerteventura, Tenerife & La Gomera over Christmas - it's available from my blog here: http://braddersbirding.blogspot.com/2012/02/canary-islands-trip-report.html Thanks to the various people who posted useful...
  3. dbradnum

    Gloves / mitts for real cold!

    I'll be off to Norway and Finland in a few weeks, expecting some memorable birding... but also temperatures down to around -20 C or a bit below. While I've got decent windstopper fleece gloves and a thin liner that are generally enough for the UK, I reckon a pair of really warm over-mitts (NB...
  4. dbradnum

    Ring-necked Duck hybrid?, London

    Hi all The attached photo was taken today by a good friend of mine in East London. We reckon it's quite possibly a Ring-necked Duck hybrid, given the shape and pattern of the bill and the head shape. It also appears to have silvery flanks becoming slightly whiter towards the front. However, it...
  5. dbradnum

    Gulf coast & lower RGV over Christmas

    Hi all, I'm heading out to Texas for the first time over Christmas, flying into Houston and then touring for 10 days. The plan is basically to bird our way south down the coast to the Rio Grande valley taking in as many species are possible, and then head back up the coast trying to fill in...
  6. dbradnum

    Bird sound recordings for North America - recommendations?

    Hi all I'm off to the States (Texas) over the winter, and would like to buy some recordings of bird songs and calls (either on CDs or MP3s). Since it's very unlikely to be my last trip across the Atlantic, I wonder if there's a single product that covers all the North American species? I've...
  7. dbradnum

    Southern Morocco, Feb 2010

    Hi all I made my first visit to Morocco a couple of weeks ago, and had a fantastic time. Awesome scenery, friendly people, and some cracking birds. I ended up adding about 25-28 birds to my Western Pal list, depending on taxonomy used - we dipped very little. In eight days, we took a fairly...
  8. dbradnum

    RFI Recent Crossbill news on Speyside

    Hi all I'll be spending a few days birding on Speyside from Friday onwards, looking for all the usual specialities. I've got sites for most things, but was wondering if anyone has any recent news on Scots / Parrot Crossbill numbers and sites? I know that a couple of years ago, there were some...
  9. dbradnum

    Brent Goose subsp. ID

    The attached shot (taken at Cley over the weekend) shows a pretty obvious Pale-bellied Brent just right of centre - slightly brownish tinged mantle, and small white collar, in addition to the pale flanks and belly contrasting strongly. A few of us were watching this in the field for a while...
  10. dbradnum

    Yet another Extremadura trip report...

    This time from April 2008, with plenty of photos: http://www.elbf.co.uk/Extremadura%20May%202008%20David%20Bradnum2.pdf. Like most people who visit the area, we enjoyed a brilliant holiday, so if you haven't been there already - go! Staying with Martin and Claudia Kelsey...
  11. dbradnum

    Southern France Mar '08: full trip report

    I had a cracking trip to the Camargue, Les Alpilles and La Crau with a birding mate in early March. We've finally put a trip report together, which will hopefully be of use to others visiting the area, or just wanting to get an idea of what it's like. It's here...
  12. dbradnum

    Northern Bottlenose Whale: R. Orwell, Ipswich

    Bit of a cetacean mega here.... Northern Bottlenose Whale in the River Orwell, Ipswich, this evening: 1/2 mile north of Orwell Bridge, off west bank, viewed from Fox's Marina at 6.15pm at least. This is the species which was in the Thames last year and made a lot of headlines in the media...
  13. dbradnum

    RFI: Southern and Central Norway

    Hi everyone I'll be spending 12 days in Norway in mid August, flying in to Kristiansand on the south coast, and then touring with a hire car and a tent. The current plan is to head north towards Trondheim and then work our way back down the west side of the country. Nothing is booked or set in...
  14. dbradnum

    Streaked acro ID

    This might be blindingly obvious, but at least a few people I know think it could be worthy of discussion. They're not my photos, and I'm not commenting on where they might have been taken... or at least, not yet! http://www.surfbirds.com/media/gallery_photos/20070525115847.jpg...
  15. dbradnum

    Ynys-hir

    Ynis-Hir RSPB Reserve Wales Discussion thread for Ynis-Hir RSPB Reserve Wales. If you would like to add a comment, click the Post Reply button. Can anyone tell me how to update the Opus page title, to correct a typo (Ynis -> Ynys) ? (Or go ahead and make the change, and delete this thread!)
  16. dbradnum

    Lee Valley Bird Fair: this weekend!

    Hi everyone The annual Lee Valley Bird Fair will once again be held just north of the M25 near Cheshunt on the Herts/Essex border this weekend, 9.30-4.30 on both days. I'm told it's now only second in size to the Rutland event, so there should be plenty to see and do! In particular, worth...
  17. dbradnum

    HP 45 type ink cartridge - free to a good home!

    Hi, Last week I rather foolishly went out to buy a new ink cartridge without double checking which variety I wanted... and needless to say came home with the wrong one. :C So, if anyone wants a brand new Hewlett Packard 45 black ink cartridge (NB: it's actually a Tesco branded refurbished one...
  18. dbradnum

    A different approach to "mystery photo" ID threads

    A different approach to "mystery photo" ID threads? All I've just been thinking about the range of "identify this mystery bird from the photo" threads that pop up on BF, and the way in which they're typically answered. (I'm talking about situations where the ID is not in doubt and is...
  19. dbradnum

    RFI: Access to Cliffe Pools, Kent

    Hi there, Tomorrow I'm likely to go looking for the Little Auk(s) recently reported at Cliffe (well, someone's got to check they're not murrelets ;) ), and was hoping someone could tell me the best place to park to access the western pools of the complex (i.e. the Alpha Pool area), and which...
  20. dbradnum

    Scilly at short notice?

    I've got next week booked off work, and no plans beyond "go birding wherever it looks good". The latest forecast suggests that the east coast isn't likely to be fantastic (the predominant wind direction would appear to be south, not east), so I'm wondering about other options. I've never set...
  21. dbradnum

    Bitten by the foreign birding bug: Mallorca, April 06

    All, I'll post my trip report in bite-size chunks, followed by a species-by-species list. If anyone wants more details (I've intentionally left out site directions to stop this turning into War and Peace), please drop me a PM - happy to help. Hope you enjoy reading this half...
  22. dbradnum

    Easter holidays around the Med - suggestions?

    All, Suzanne and I are hoping to sort out one or possibly two weeks holiday around the Mediterranean this Easter (somewhere in the period 1st-17th April), to combine impressive scenery, good birding and relatively low prices! Short notice, I know, but fingers crossed for a good late deal...
  23. dbradnum

    Rainham Marshes RSPB Open Weekend - 17/18 September

    Although Rainham Marshes does not yet have general access for the public, here's a chance to come along, see what's going on and hopefully a few good birds. There's been Collared Pratincole, Pec Sandpiper and Red-backed Shrike on site recently, as well as a host of more regular waders -...
  24. dbradnum

    RFI County Kerry in August

    Hi everyone, I'll be on holiday on the south side of the Kenmare river in County Kerry (Ireland) for the middle two weeks of August, but haven't been able to find much relevant birding info on the net or elsewhere - can anybody on BF help me out, please? In particular, I'm interested in...
  25. dbradnum

    Iceland or Glauc?

    Take a look at the Iceland Gull pic on Surfbirds by Nick Sampford... <here> Recalling the much debated Manx white-winged gull earlier this year <here>, and with all the usual caveats about IDing from a single photo... is it definitely an Iceland? Looks pretty attenuated, but are the head...
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