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    Tenerife in late April

    Thanks for that Larry! I've updated the original post to reflect this information. I've found some more information on the Chaffinch split here. I've also found some information on the Blue Chaffinch split, apparently into (Tenerife) Blue Chaffinch and Gran Canaria Blue Finch (Sangster et al...
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    Tenerife in late April

    Thanks for your comments Richard. You are right! I was a bit too casual in assuming the red eye was diagnostic for ACD vs CD. Collins mentions a "dark eye" for CD which I took to mean "not red". However, it seems that the colour of the under tail coverts is a more diagnostic marker, being grey...
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    Tenerife in late April

    Going Home There's not much to report here. We left the house fairly early, filled up with petrol as the hire car required a full tank on return and then drove the hour or so back to the airport to drop off the car. K's flight wasn't until the evening so she went on via bus to go on a whale...
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    Tenerife in late April

    Day Three We decided to have a more chill day today. I'd basically seen all the major species that I had on my target list apart from African Collard Dove. I had spotted a pale Collard Dove species in passing from the car which had probably been one but I wasn't sure. Still, I was fairly easy...
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    Tenerife in late April

    Day Two The next morning, first thing it was bright and sunny. Just wandering around the cottage environs there were Chiffchaffs, Canaries, and Blackbirds everywhere, along with a single singing Robin, and a Turtle Dove was purring away in the copse at the end of the garden. Overhead were Plain...
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    Tenerife in late April

    Day One K had stayed at La Laguna several times as it is right next to Tenerife North Airport which is used to hop over from Tenerife to La Palma where the observatory is. However, she'd never had a chance to explore the town itself so after the hotel breakfast we went for a wander about. Once...
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    Tenerife in late April

    This is a compilation taken from my latest blog post. K, my eldest daughter, was going to La Palma in the Canary Islands for work. She's an astronomer and visits regularly to take measurments at the observatory there where the air quality and light pollution are both very good for astronomy...
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