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  1. Edward

    Crossbill sp. in Iceland

    A friend of mine took this photo of a crossbill in southern Iceland on Saturday while waiting for the White-winged Crossbill to show up. He only took a couple of photos of this one before it flew off and didn’t think much of it until he looked at the photo when he got back home. Common...
  2. Edward

    Aquatic rodent ID, British Columbia

    I saw this huge aquatic rodent in the very early morning outside my hotel in Richmond, British Columbia at the beginning of May. My initial thought was Beaver but then started having second thoughts that it might actually be a Muskrat. And then when I finally opened my mammal field guide (much...
  3. Edward

    Turtle Dove, Iceland

    A Turtle Dove turned up in my town in SW Iceland on Thursday. It's an absolute swine to see, but it showed itself fairly well today but was incredibly shy and disappeared for long periods at the slightest disturbance. To be honest I don't have much experience of Turtle Dove - have seen two here...
  4. Edward

    One Gyr Falcon, 38 dogs and 100,000 Little Auks – Birding East Greenland by dogsled

    This probably has the highest "words to birds ratio" of any trip report ever written but I thought I'd post it anyway as trip reports from Greenland are few and far between. Introduction In May I visited the isolated Greenlandic village of Ittoqqortoormiit and travelled along the outer coast of...
  5. Edward

    Prairie potholes and the boreal forest - Minnesota and North Dakota

    Minnesota and North Dakota 27 May – 4 June 2008 Part one Introduction In late May I went on a short birding trip to Minnesota and North Dakota with my good friend Sigmundur Ásgeirsson (Simmi). Our original plan had been a short spring trip in Europe, either to Finland or Poland, but when a...
  6. Edward

    Tenerife 16-23 January 2008

    How to see the endemics with the minimum effort I visited Tenerife for the first time in January on a family holiday, the first time away with our 8-month old twins. While I've been to several places (Australia, Singapore, Trinidad & Tobago, New York City) with my non-birding wife and managed...
  7. Edward

    Kenyan bat ID

    A friend of mine saw these bats in the Masai Mara NR in Kenya in January but neither he nor I can find anything that matches them in Kingdon's mammal field guide. Anyone have any ideas? E
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  8. Edward

    Icelandic finch fun

    A strange looking finch has been visiting a garden in Selfoss in southern Iceland for the past three days. Pictures here http://www.gaviatravel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=457&Ite I haven't seen it myself (I have bathroom and kitchen to renovate and three bedrooms to paint...
  9. Edward

    Kenyan coucal ID

    We saw this coucal in western Kenya in January this year, near Mumias (at the famous Rock Pratincole site). We had no prior experience of either of the two possibilities in that area and we're still not 100% sure. Any African experts have any ideas? E
  10. Edward

    Gyr Falcon finds the back of the net

    Interesting story sent via the Icelandic birding webgroup this morning. School kids at a school in the village of Kópasker in far NE Iceland watched a Gyr Falcon catch and eat a Ptarmigan yesterday right outside the classroom window. Two Ptarmigans were feeding on the school football field...
  11. Edward

    An Englishman in New York

    Impressions of a first trip to North America 15-22 May 2006 In mid-May I visited New York City with my wife for a week on a non-birding trip (my wife isn't remotely interested in birding but is more than happy to let me disappear for a couple of hours each day, as long as she isn't expected to...
  12. Edward

    Iceland(ic) Gull

    I spent a fair time gull watching near Reykjavík at the weekend, with ten species of gull turning up in the harbour, including our first twitchable Laughing Gull (a surpisingly rare bird here). Amongst the abundant Iceland Gulls were several Kumlien's and also a bird which was first seen two...
  13. Edward

    Gyr Falcon strikes in gull paradise

    I spent a lot of time at the weekend in Hafnarfjörður, the most southerly town in the Reykjavík conurbation, after my friend found Iceland's 10th Laughing Gull (and first twitchable) on Friday night. It gave people a runaround for most of the weekend, but whilst other people were unfortunate...
  14. Edward

    The Edge of Europe

    At the weekend I decided to put off painting the bedroom for yet another weekend (I've been procrastinating three years now, what does another seven days matter?) and instead go and visit a corner of Iceland I have very little experience of, taking in the westernmost point in the country...
  15. Edward

    Operation Harlequin, plus 3,000 Iceland Gulls

    I spent last weekend birding with visiting British birder Steve Lister, who was on his first trip to Iceland. He was most keen on seeing Icelandic specialities such as Harlequin Duck, Barrow’s Goldeneye, Gyr Falcon and Brünnich’s Guillemot, as well as getting good views of winter plumage...
  16. Edward

    Truly bizarre migration record

    On 24 February two male Northern Wheatears were observed in the village of Bolungarvík in extreme NW Iceland. The village is located at c. 66°N and 23°W, (the closest bit to Greenland) and the area receives a lot of snow in the winter. It seems virtually impossible that these birds could have...
  17. Edward

    Queensland - October/November 2004

    Australia: 20 October - 8 November 2004 How to see 250 species on a family holiday and still stay in the good books In October-November this year I visited Australia with my wife and parents-in-law to attend a family wedding in Brisbane. We stayed roughly two weeks in Brisbane and the last week...
  18. Edward

    Advance Australia Fair! - A day in the Wet Tropics

    I’ve recently returned from a holiday to Queensland, Australia, a simply superb area for birding and general holidaymaking. It was essentially a non-birding trip as I was travelling with three non-birders (wife and in-laws). However, I managed to get up at an ungodly hour every day for three...
  19. Edward

    Icebergs and Paddyfield Warbler

    Although I intended to do some birding last weekend I didn't imagine that it'd be an all-weekend affair. But when a friend rang me last Friday just as I was going home and said there's a new species for the country in south-east Iceland, I realised that all plans for a quiet weekend had gone out...
  20. Edward

    Goose migration

    On Saturday I saw two very big flocks of Pale-bellied Brent Geese (Branta bernicla hrota) coming in off the sea in south-western Iceland, arriving after a mammoth crossing of the Greenland icecap and the Denmark Strait from their breeding islands in northern Canada. They're the first ones I've...
  21. Edward

    The Great Icelandic Pelagic

    For some time now a few of us here in Iceland have had the idea of organising a pelagic trip, and last Saturday, after lengthy planning, the inaugural Icelandic pelagic set sail into seas unknown. Inspired by tales of Cornwall pelagics and trips across the Bay of Biscay we decided we had to try...
  22. Edward

    Close encounter with Snowy Owls

    Last Saturday was one of those days in the field that I’ll look back on in years to come and think “remember the day that…” and I’ll get a shudder up my spine as I recall the experience. After two birders had independently seen a male Snowy Owl on a remote upland plateau in western Iceland...
  23. Edward

    Organising a pelagic - need tips!

    Now that July is upon us, a few of us have decided to organise the first Icelandic pelagic. It's a bit of a disgrace that a a great seafaring nation like Iceland has never had a proper birding trip at sea with chum and all and we aim to rectify the situation in mid-August. We suspect the waters...
  24. Edward

    Green Heron and Golden Oriole - strange bedfellows

    As often happens when you go abroad, a massive rarity turns up back home the moment your back is turned. Last week was no exception as the evening before I was due to fly out to England my friend called me with the news that he'd just found a Green Heron in south-east Iceland, the second record...
  25. Edward

    Icelandic birder "does" Norfolk in a day!

    On the last day of my week long trip to Britain I decided to “go for it” and spend a very long day in Norfolk, before flying out to Iceland from Stansted in the evening. Having dipped on Nightjar earlier in the week at Cannock Chase I was more determined than ever to see this species (which I...
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