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  1. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    The 10% Club - Milestones

    I hit a quarter of all bird species (IOC) a couple of years ago but, because the list has grown due to splits, I've dropped below that threshold again by about 8 species. I'll pass the 25 percent mark again in Taiwan in a couple of weeks, hopefully by a much wider margin this time.
  2. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    Plans to reintroduce Golden Eagles to England and Wales?

    If the translocation of eagles to the southern uplands of Scotland is successful they would probably spread to northern England anyway, depending on persecution of course. Oddly, the only Golden Eagle I've seen in Britain was the last English one at Haweswater in Cumbria. I always seem to miss...
  3. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    Urban Birding in Kuwait - November 2023

    Sorry, I didn't get as far as Al Jahra so I'm not really sure. Looking on ebird hotspots, it says Al Jahra requires a permit but doesn't say anything for the outflow.
  4. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    22 years of Birding

    I don't have a specific date because I can't remember a time when I wasn't interested in birds and nature. At primary school in the 70s a couple of friends and I were members of a local field club and went on coach trips to various East Anglian reserves. I vivdly remember a trip to Minsmere, and...
  5. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    restaurants where you can bird and eat at the same time

    The cafe at Cley, Norfolk, has a great view over the reserve but the birds are a bit distant.
  6. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    restaurants where you can bird and eat at the same time

    On a visit to northern Finland last year, the restaurant at Neljan Tuulen Tupa had a number of feeders right outside the window with Pine Grosbeak, Willow and Siberian Tits, Siberian Jay, Common and Arctic Redpolls, etc. present throughout the day.
  7. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    Why not change it to Gammon-footed Shearwater? Surely no one could be offended by that.
  8. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    I'm amazed that this is the only reason for the name change, rather than the brutal and genocidal nature of the Inca Empire. It may have been on a much smaller scale, but the Inca's annihilation of the various Andean cultures that they conquered was otherwise just as sickening as what the...
  9. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    Mink Removal achievable (allegedly)

    I didn't realise they had been eradicated from East Anglia. Looking at my Birdtrack records, the last one I saw was in 2017 at the Ouse Washes (incidentally, the same place I saw my first and only Coypu in the late 80s, just before they too were eradicated).
  10. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    January 1st joint Birdforum list (2024 edition)

    I can add Little Owl for the UK (Waterbeach, Cambs.). This is my first time reading this thread and I noticed it missing from the list.
  11. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    Adviced needed for spotting Rosy finches in Snowmass/Aspen, Colorado

    I did a birding tour of Colorado a couple of years ago and we got all the rosy finches at feeding stations in people's suburban yards. We drove or walked around the suburbs of high altitude towns until we saw bird activity in a yard and then just watched from a discrete distance so as not to...
  12. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    Ha! Same here. I saw about five GHOs on a chicken tour of Colorado, including a self-found lifer just outside Cherry Creek State Park before the tour started. The only Eurasian Eagle Owls I've seen were chicks in a nest at the well-known viewpoint in Monfrague NP, Spain. Never seen an adult.
  13. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    Urban Birding in Kuwait - November 2023

    I'm not sure exactly where I was. It was the nearest bit of beach to the bus stop and I could see Flamingos all across the bay. I know there's the Al Jahra outflow and then a Flamingo watchpoint nearer Kuwait City. I would have been somewhere between those two points.
  14. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    Urban Birding in Kuwait - November 2023

    29th Nov 2023 On the final day I caught a bus out to Sulaibikhat Beach in the south of Kuwait Bay, just outside the city and on the way to the birding hotspot of Al Jahra. This was a slightly unattractive, scrub-covered beach backed by a thickly tree-lined road. The tide was all the way out...
  15. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    Urban Birding in Kuwait - November 2023

    28th Nov 2023 This was mostly a sight-seeing day, visiting a couple of museums and the aquarium, but I managed an early morning visit to Al Shaheed Park where, as well as all the usual common birds, I also saw two Lesser Whitethroats, two Hoopoes (one inside and one just outside the park), and...
  16. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    Urban Birding in Kuwait - November 2023

    27th Nov 2023 The next morning I set off fairly early and walked to Green Island (which isn’t actually an island) for a slim chance at Grey Hypocolius. This park doesn’t open until 9am, but some trip reports speak of being let in early to look for birds. On the way there seven Pallid Swifts...
  17. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    Urban Birding in Kuwait - November 2023

    26th Nov 2023 Kuwait is good for birds but not so good for independent birders. It seems like most of the best locations require permits or, for some of the more localised species, a bit of local knowledge. Despite this, it is still possible to find decent birds in Kuwait City using the...
  18. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    Varanger Fjord and Northern Finland by Public Transport - March 2023

    That's a trip I've had my eye on for a while - up the west coast of the US, then the ferry to Alaska. I read somewhere you can even pitch a tent on the deck.
  19. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    Varanger Fjord and Northern Finland by Public Transport - March 2023

    The boat company I used was Havila Voyages: Havila homepage - Havila Voyages I think they might be a bit cheaper than Hurtigruten.
  20. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    What’s your nemesis bird?

    Long-tailed and Pom Skuas are amongst the most embarrassing gaps in my British list. I've had great views of both abroad (even been dive-bombed by Long-tailed in Abisko National Park, Sweden) but never managed to see them in the UK. Arctic Skuas are easy enough on the Norfolk coast in Autumn.
  21. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    Varanger Fjord and Northern Finland by Public Transport - March 2023

    Thank you.
  22. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    Varanger Fjord and Northern Finland by Public Transport - March 2023

    Thank you. According to the ebird hotspot for Vadso Steller's Eider should still be reasonably easy in May. Not sure about King Eider: https://ebird.org/hotspot/L1120373/media?yr=all&m=
  23. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    BINS

    I was wondering the same thing. It's been down for a couple of weeks now. I can't find any site that has Suffolk bird sightings now.
  24. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    What souvenirs do you keep from foreign trips?

    Another member of Team Fridge Magnet here: I also bring back coins and banknotes. I've filled an album with coins, then the rest went into a tin. One day I'll get them organised. The notes are in a large, Loadsamoney-style wad. Often I'll buy a T-shirt if I see one I like. As for found...
  25. SlowLowFlyingTurkey

    Car hire companies Budapest

    I assumed it was a bot. New poster with a strange writing style. I haven't clicked on the link.
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