Paul Chapman
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Heading to Cardiff. A few tickets for the summer so I'm going to try and keep a list of birds seen from inside the cricket grounds.
We've all seen the pictures of Silver Gulls on the playing surfaces down under or Black Kites circling in the sub-continent. I've never followed cricket abroad but did tour Sri Lanka as an average school cricketer in the 80's and recall my first Brahminy Kites and a flock of Pacific Golden Plovers one lunchtime.
There must be birders who follow cricket who've seen a great deal from inside grounds. (Indeed there's at least one cricket journalist.) Anything really memorable?
In this country, I remember news of a Black Stork once over the Oval but I have only seen the quite ordinary with perhaps the most memorable personally being a wheatear during migration.
I reckon 15 species will be a decent haul for the day....
All the best
We've all seen the pictures of Silver Gulls on the playing surfaces down under or Black Kites circling in the sub-continent. I've never followed cricket abroad but did tour Sri Lanka as an average school cricketer in the 80's and recall my first Brahminy Kites and a flock of Pacific Golden Plovers one lunchtime.
There must be birders who follow cricket who've seen a great deal from inside grounds. (Indeed there's at least one cricket journalist.) Anything really memorable?
In this country, I remember news of a Black Stork once over the Oval but I have only seen the quite ordinary with perhaps the most memorable personally being a wheatear during migration.
I reckon 15 species will be a decent haul for the day....
All the best
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