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  1. foresttwitcher

    Cyprus - April 2024

    Thursday 18th April: No avian alarm today as the nest was empty but the rising sun did the trick. Set off east this morning, seeing the common species on the road, starting at Zakaki Pool but it was very overgrown with reeds and nothing to be seen so I carried on toward Ladies Mile Beach...
  2. foresttwitcher

    Cyprus - April 2024

    Thanks Chris, yes, one lifer a day was a fine start for me on this trip.
  3. foresttwitcher

    Cyprus - April 2024

    Wednesday 17th April: This morning's alarm call was a male House Sparrow sitting chirping in the Martin's nest! So out westward again, starting by trying and failing to find access to the Aspro Pools and then heading to the car park by the facilities area and a walk across Asprokremnos Dam...
  4. foresttwitcher

    Limburg Netherlands - female European Kestrel ?

    Yes, black claws exclude Lesser.
  5. foresttwitcher

    Guess the bird-

    Stone Curlew?
  6. foresttwitcher

    Guess the bird-

    Woodcock?
  7. foresttwitcher

    Cyprus - April 2024

    Thanks Frank and have a good trip David. Tuesday 16th April: Up early again this morning as I was woken by the Barn Swallows and House Martins squabbling over the partly built nest. So decided on a longish drive about about as far west as you can to the Akamas Peninsula, seeing the usual...
  8. foresttwitcher

    Cyprus - April 2024

    Yes, Chris, very impressed by the mosaics, the first I have seen in the flesh. And thanks, always good to get a lifer on the first morning of a trip :)
  9. foresttwitcher

    Cyprus - April 2024

    Monday 15th April: Woke earlyish this morning, despite the late finish yesterday, to see a pair of House Martin building a nest above the stairwell outside my window and a number of Barn Swallow feeding above the patio/balcony plus House Sparrow and Collared Dove in the nearby trees. I set off...
  10. foresttwitcher

    Shots of birds, taken with your pocket camera

    Taken with smartphone in Buckinghamshire, UK.
  11. foresttwitcher

    Cyprus - April 2024

    With no prospect of travelling to see my chosen artists performing live this year and as 2023 was, for me, a very expensive travel year, this year would be birding only and on a budget so therefore staying in Europe. As winter tends to be the busiest time for me work-wise, a spring tip sounded a...
  12. foresttwitcher

    Name a bird for each letter of the alphabet-

    K - Kruper's Nuthatch - one constantly flitting between pines on Lesvos.
  13. foresttwitcher

    Switzerland 2024

    Yes, sorry, my mistake - I meant to put Slender-billed Gull then looked at your photos and got confused ... honestly! It's an age thing.
  14. foresttwitcher

    Switzerland 2024

    Red-billed Gull, Audouin's Gull & Laughing Gull?
  15. foresttwitcher

    Pine Tree ID in New Jersey, USA - 4/21/24

    It reminds me of Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris), from Europe, but I'm far from sure and don't know if there are any US confusion species.
  16. foresttwitcher

    Guess the bird-

    Common Buzzard?
  17. foresttwitcher

    Pine Tree ID in New Jersey, USA - 4/21/24

    Did you take a photo of the bark on the main stem?
  18. foresttwitcher

    Guess the bird-

    Are we running out of birds yet?!
  19. foresttwitcher

    Crested Kingfisher - Japan

    I had one at the confluence of Uranomyo & Oyodo Rivers near Miyazaki in 2020. As with Andrew this was winter but I assume they are resident.
  20. foresttwitcher

    Guess the bird-

    Partridge?
  21. foresttwitcher

    Guess the bird-

    Pheasant?
  22. foresttwitcher

    Guess the bird-

    Kestrel?
  23. foresttwitcher

    Guess the bird-

    Skylark?
  24. foresttwitcher

    Guess the bird-

    Short-eared Owl?
  25. foresttwitcher

    Name a bird for each letter of the alphabet-

    G - Gyrfalcon - two interacting low overhead and alongside the car while driving the loop road around the large tundra peninsular north east of Husavik, Iceland.
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