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Recent content by den mather

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    vardo area norway

    Thanks again rosbifs and also to Jobbuq. It already looks as though we'll have to stay for an extra four weeks to do the area justice! At least we can bird continuously in the 24 hr daylight. We're returning from Vardo to Tromso on the ferry before flying to Oslo, so will do some seawatching...
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    vardo area norway

    Thanks v much for detailed info Rosbifs, We will have stop and have a look at Nesseby just in case they are still around. I found by chance a trip report (Finland into Norway and back) which mentioned river cliffs on the Tana as a good place to watch the sky for Gyr so we might have time to...
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    scotland trip

    Hi Paul We caught corncrakes (to put transponders on them as part of a joint Czech/German project) at night. Obviously, I'm not advocating disturbing the birds in any way just to observe them, but if you have a clear night they are more boldly active and their constant calls will immediately...
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    vardo area norway

    Thanks very much Pete, I've been ill so sorry for late reply. Better now and I've ordered the book. den
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    vardo area norway

    Mrs and I will be unexpectedly in this area with a car for three days in the second half of June. One day will be taken up by vsiting Hoyholman island (and therefore Vardo harbour). I'm hoping someone could give us some pointers as to the best places for birds we won't be likely ro see on...
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    Czek Rep - southern hills around Sumava

    You're maybe just in time to catch some calling examples. Depends in which part of Sumava you will be (how high). Black will almost certainly come and investigate if you can imitate one of their whistles. I try it for a very short time in a new area to see if they are there, and only once...
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    Short-toed eagles : not sexable but age-able? Lunigiana, Italy

    Thanks for the lovely pics and for adding to my sparse knowledge! One small point. I am so old that I learnt to fly on Tiger Moths and the allulae - or slats as they called them - popped out of the front of the wings if the airflow started to break away from the wings. Their job was to guide...
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    Hen Harriers go missing ... again

    I've wondered over the years - being based in Scotland - whether one answer might be a big (hopefully a thousand people or more) picnic/slow ramble across the grouse moor as soon as the day of the big shoot is known. As has been said, it is very difficult to catch a gamie or others stamping a...
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    Bird call Nuthatch or Lesser Spotted Woodpecker call

    Agree that that one's a nuthatch. Some nuthatches here in Bohemia can get very artistic with their range of noises. Had one near the garden trying to imitate a starling imitating half a golden oriole's commonest call (second half - and it usually means that the orioles themselves will not be...
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    More Accips.....?

    You have a good point KenM! Photos especially of raptors can be difficult. I have a photo of a local Gos which looks very similar to your number 4 ! The others look like Sprawks to me despite, as you say, the hips. I remember a series years ago of Marsh Harriers, one of which had obviously just...
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    barbary falcon portugal

    PS - I just remembered that he almost certainly means the high flat area a little north and slightly inland from the lighthouse. We saw Peregrines on the sea cliffs near there a couple of years ago.
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    barbary falcon portugal

    Thanks for the suggestion Simon. Peter has lived in the Scottish countryside for 30+ years but is originally German and goes to Port for some of every winter mostly in his campervan but also 'looks after' german owned villas for Hilde. His background is professional forestry and ecology. He...
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    barbary falcon portugal

    Thanks very much for the info guys. My old friend Peter who is familiar with peregrines but like me not by any means an expert birder is pretty sure he had a long look at one eating a goldfinch on Sagres Flat yesterday. He doubted his eyes since he had never heard of one although he has spent...
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    barbary falcon portugal

    Could anyone please tell me if there are records for Barbary falcon in SW Portugal? thanks den
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    Any Wallcreepers near Brno??

    A couple used to winter on the cliffs of the little low Palava hills just outside Mikulov - near the Austrian border south of Brno. On the other side of Czechia north of Plzen at a little town called Merklin one has been wintering in a factory complex and has actually been fed by a clever local...
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