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  1. edenwatcher

    Semipalmated/ringed plover(s), Tenerife

    As I posted on the rare bird forum, on Friday afternoon whilst trying to boost our meagre trip list for a week on Tenerife (hard core birding limited by the age range of the party - 10 to 96!) I visited a small pool and barranco a little more than a kilometre east of Los Abrigos, south of...
  2. edenwatcher

    Hong Kong query

    I am in Hong Kong for a conference next week. I have October 1st free, which I gather is a public holiday. I guess this means many places will be very crowded (especially Mai Po?). Can anyone recommend somewhere suitable to visit (I will be staying in east Kowloon). I have birded HK before...
  3. edenwatcher

    Alaska July 2012 – a family holiday(!)

    Alaska is not an obvious holiday destination for a family with young children. However with friends in Anchorage, who are likely to leave within a year, it was now or never. We had originally thought of going last year but Daniel’s godfather works for BP and it seemed as if BP might be run out...
  4. edenwatcher

    Nothing to grouse about - a night on a lek

    Thought about putting this in "Your birding day" but decided on here instead ... Let me start be stating that I am very much a birder first and a photographer second. However I do like taking pictures, and give illustrated talks etc. Also there are some species which are intrinsically...
  5. edenwatcher

    Madagascar 2010 – an island apart

    As the world’s 4th largest island and, despite its proximity to the coast of Africa, with a unique and varied fauna exhibiting a high degree of endemism, Madagascar is one of those places that must feature highly on any birder’s list of prospective destinations. Few countries offer such a high...
  6. edenwatcher

    Eastern Australia October 2009

    In the second half of October I visited eastern Australia (QLD and NSW) on an organised tour. This is not really the ideal way of visiting the country as 2 weeks is not long enough to do it justice and it is easy enough to cover independently. However given that my annual birding holiday is...
  7. edenwatcher

    Death of Mike Madders

    Author of "Where to watch birds in Scotland". An awful tragedy. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8218107.stm Rob
  8. edenwatcher

    Crossbills, Speyside

    A thread title to make the blood run cold ... Last weekend I led a very successful SOC outing to Speyside during which we encountered lots of pine munchers. At Forest Lodge we had a single obvious male parrot xbill, a flock of 8 "pine crossbills" fly over and another male crossbill with a...
  9. edenwatcher

    Fuerteventura Jan/Feb 2009

    Back in the autumn Sue decided that she would need to escape the gloom of a Scottish winter for a week's sun and preferably some good birding. We initially looked at Tenerife as there are flights from Edinburgh, but decided that searching for pigeons in laurel forests with 2 small boys (3 and a...
  10. edenwatcher

    Edenwatcher in Japan, Feb 2008 - a photojourney

    Originally I wasn't going to do a thread on my trip to see the avian wonders of Japan in winter, but better later than never. Rather than a blow by blow account I'll just give a few words and lots of photos. This was the first Japan in Winter trip run by one of the leading tour companies and...
  11. edenwatcher

    Fife moths

    A few recent micros that I am struggling with: 1. an epiblema type (early June, rest are this week) 2. ? around 8mm 3. Eudonia pallida or just a worn E. truncicolella/mercurella? 4. ? quite large (is it even a micro?) 5. Eucosma type Muchas gracias Rob
  12. edenwatcher

    Unusual carrion crow feeding behaviour

    Here is something that Sue observed at the local country park last week. We don't have the relevant volume of BWP (only the Concise) so we're not sure if it has been observed previously... The country park is tyrannised by 3 muscovy ducks which basically take all the bread that is going...
  13. edenwatcher

    A few loose ends ...

    As everyone else is ignoring the ID bit of the forum, I shall do likewise. As the weather is rather poor I'm not trapping at the moment so it seems a good idea to mop up some outstanding IDs. First up a Depressariinae from Saturday, which I am thinking might be Agonopterix nervosa. Rob
  14. edenwatcher

    Gold spot or Lempke's?

    Those of you following my thread will know that, after a recent run of jolly nice plusias, I have almost reached the full set available for the garden list. The one outstanding species (or so I thought) was Lempke's gold spot which led me to wondering how one tells the 2 gold spots apart...
  15. edenwatcher

    edenwatcher and ionemosia visit Ecuador

    Part 1 Iain and I met on a record-breaking tour to Costa Rica last year, and with Sue letting me carry on travelling after Andrew's birth, we decided to join forces. After some discussion we settled on Tropical Birding's Southern Ecuador tour, but a combination of KLM's flight schedules and...
  16. edenwatcher

    A thrash round Fife and Kinross

    or 2 Roberts clean up(nearly) This weekend was Andrew's christening and it so happens that one of his godfathers is a birder. We met as students in Cambridge, where as a post-grad Robert looked after Docmartin's undergrad project. It was arranged that I would take him on a tour of the sights...
  17. edenwatcher

    Take us to 150

    In the spirit of Sean's quiz to take him to 500, here is one to take our garden list to 150. We are also 9 short, after the bizarre addition of long-eared owl earlier this week. Details of what we have seen are to be found on this long running thread -...
  18. edenwatcher

    Edenwatcher goes a mothing

    Here I am another joining the serried ranks of new mothers. We have just acquired a portable rigid trap from Watkins and Doncaster. Since we have a drive that is almost 200m long a portable trap was a necessity for sampling the whole area. After a few teething troubles with the bulb (still...
  19. edenwatcher

    Summer scaup - where from?

    In the UK we are familiar enough with scaup as a winter visitor. Indeed Fife used to be a hotspot for the species until the outfall at Leven disappeared. I remember 1000+ not so many years ago ... However here on the inner Eden estuary we tend to observe most scaup during the summer months, from...
  20. edenwatcher

    Birding Asia 2

    The latest Birding Asia arrived on Saturday morning - another fine job Tim. It's definitely a step up on the old OBC bulletin. One minor quibble - Frank Lambert's review of HBW8. It said next to nothing about the book and turned into a minor rant on taxonomy. Complete waste of space. Rob
  21. edenwatcher

    Ruddons Point

    We are very fortunate that our WeBS stretch includes Ruddons Point at the east end of Largo Bay - renowned for its surf scoter (or scoters depending on the year). Here is a quick summary of yesterday's outing. As usual I began by tramping around in the Cocklemill Marsh where good numbers of...
  22. edenwatcher

    Nightjar ID

    Hi all, Whilst in Ecuador last month we had crippling views of a female nightjar on its nest at the roadside near Bellavista. It was shown to us as a band-winged nightjar but our guide questioned the ID and suggested swallow-tailed. Rather than scan one of my slides I see that cfagyal has...
  23. edenwatcher

    Outer Hebrides May 2004

    Just back from a very successful trip to the Hebs so I thought I'd post a short report. The Plan We had been intending to visit the Uists again this spring but with the harlequin duck lingering on Lewis we decided to tack on a day there first. The idea was to drive up to Uig on Skye on...
  24. edenwatcher

    Eden Estuary News

    Hi everyone, Inspired by Jane Turner's monumental garden list and excellent thread I thought I'd start one on our garden overlooking the inner Eden estuary in Fife. We too have a wonderful garden for birds with a list of 126 since 29/11/02. Highlights so far in no particular order include...
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