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    Amazing number of Black-necked Grebe

    Hallo, On Saturday 11.08 , myself and 2 other birders where at the `Kelbra reservoir´ in Saxony-Anhalt in Germany. On the reservoir we counted 2700 Black-necked Grebe, this was not all of them as the heat waves had started to disort the picture and the we could not safely identifie the birds...
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    South African Shelduck or Hybrid Ruddy Shelduck??? Northeim, Germany

    For the last couple of days on my local patch there has been a what I ID as a Ruddy Shelduck + Egyptian Goose(possibly Greylag?) Hybrid. This bird stays with a Ruddy Shelduck which is always with the Egyptian Geese(all year round). It has now been ID´d as a South African Shelduck but I am not...
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    Little Egret with a touch of grey????

    For the last three days there has been a Little Egret on my local patch, for us here a big rarity!!. It is a juveneile and on the belly has grey patches which isn´t shown in any book and which I have never seen on any other Little Egret that I have seen in the UK or France. Has anybody an idea...
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    Dotterel and Jack Snipe with a touch of Black Stork.

    On Sunday 27 October I was checking out my local patch and was lucky enough to find three migrating Dotterel on a ploughed field.On the gravel banks of the River Leine between Snipe, Wood and Green Sandpiper, Ruff, Little Ringed Plover and a Dunlin, well hidden in the undergrowth was a bobbing...
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    Sanderling, Lower Saxoney, Germany

    I saw this Sanderling on a gravel pit, the bill is a bit long?? and it was very still, not the usual jizz for a sanderlin???
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    Great White Egret

    If I saw a Great White Egret five years ago on my local nature reserve I would have started to ring other birder´s so they could come and look. One or two individuals would turn up at the end of october and by march where gone. Over the last three years the numbers have been increasing so that...
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    Elsass in August

    I am going for a weeks holiday in the Colmar region, what can I expect to see and where can I find information about the bird life in the area???????? Thanks!!!!!
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    One morning in America

    I have just got back from a working trip to the States where I had a very limited time to do any birding, I actually managed only one morning serious birding, about 3 hours in total, but due to the help from Paul and Barbara Serridge of the Greenville Birdwatchers Club in South Carolina managed...
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    Hallo from Einbeck in Lower Saxony

    After several years birding I have managed to come online, still trying to find my feet in the computer world, more at home with bins and scope!!, I seem to be the only birding Brit in the Einbeck area , so if there are anymore of you out there it would be interesting to hear from you. Best...
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