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Recent content by Steve Keen

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    Spurfowl, Tsavo West, Kenya

    njlarsen: yes, have looked at a lot of pics on eBird and elsewhere, but can't find any that are quite so brightly-billed THE FERN: yes again, it was just the brightness of the bill that had me a little puzzled, and because I was puzzled at the time, I've let it get in my head a bit. But with...
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    Spurfowl, Tsavo West, Kenya

    Been stewing on this one since I saw in, in Tsavo West 2/2/23, not too far from Ngulia Lodge. It would've gone down as Hildebrandt's were it not for the striking red bill and legs, more reminiscent of Scaly. The only other spurfowl seen that day were a couple of Yellow-necked, so nothing to...
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    SE Uganda

    Because it's sort of strayed into the territory of trip report, thought I'd share a link to my thread on the Uganda forum re my recent 5 days there visiting Mabamba and Mabira https://www.birdforum.net/threads/mabira.433139/#post-4438015
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    Mabira

    I'm sure there are better ways to do Mabira, but this suited my budget and the relaxed style I intended for this trip, and I got a few lifers out of it despite having done Cameroon and Kenya previously. I camped at Nkima Lodge for Mabamba (couldn't afford the lodge prices), and they organised...
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    Two different cinclodes, Ushuaia, Argentina, this week.

    Definitely Grey-flanked
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    Mabira

    OK, so having now "been there, done that" I'll reply, in case it's of use to anyone else. Access to Mabira is indeed very straightforward. I stayed in Jinja town, which is about 20-30 minutes to the east, and had three days birding alone at Mabira. Negotiated a taxi out to the forest for 50000...
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    Mabira

    Hi all Heading to Kenya for 3 weeks in Jan/Feb, a DIY fairly relaxed trip (having been there twice before this is more about just getting away to somewhere vaguely familiar and very birdy), and would also like to hop across to Uganda for Shoebill. All of which is straightforward enough, I more...
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    Sanday 28th September-7th October 2022

    Assuming I've done everything right all my Sanday ebird lists should be at this link: https://ebird.org/tripreport/81115?welcome=true 111 species was a good haul considering the conditions. Matched the 2021 tally (although two of those subsequently didn't satisfy the powers that be - two of...
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    Sanday 28th September-7th October 2022

    https://swaysteve.blogspot.com/2022/10/last-day.html?m=1
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    Sanday 28th September-7th October 2022

    https://swaysteve.blogspot.com/2022/10/wild-weather-again.html
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    Sanday 28th September-7th October 2022

    Thanks very much. Really enjoyed writing them and nice to know the effort has been appreciated.
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    Sanday 28th September-7th October 2022

    https://swaysteve.blogspot.com/2022/10/redefining-rarity.html
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    Sanday 28th September-7th October 2022

    https://swaysteve.blogspot.com/2022/10/autumnal.html
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    Sanday 28th September-7th October 2022

    https://swaysteve.blogspot.com/2022/10/day-six.html
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    Sanday 28th September-7th October 2022

    https://swaysteve.blogspot.com/2022/10/mood-swings.html?m=1
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