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  1. maenad

    Alaska July 2012 – a family holiday(!)

    Thanks for posting this great report, Rob, with such enticing pictures! Alaska has always been one of my dream destinations, but with a 2 year old in the house I had given up on it for at least the next decade. But after reading about your adventures, maybe it doesn't need to be so far away...
  2. maenad

    One Gyr Falcon, 38 dogs and 100,000 Little Auks – Birding East Greenland by dogsled

    A fascinating and enticing glimpse of the Arctic, Edward. Looking forward to reading more! Kathleen
  3. maenad

    Chelmos, Erimanthos, Mainalo: A Peloponnesian Butterflies Trip, 28/06/12 – 08/07/12

    Glad you had a successful trip, CactusD. Hopefully next time LP will be big enough that we can go as a family. Happy 5th wedding anniversary! :king::king::king::king::king:
  4. maenad

    Maenad's 2011 List

    The End Well, 142 species in the UK this year, with very little birding done from May to September, isn't exactly awful, but not great either. To be honest, the list was becoming more of a chore than a pleasure towards the end of the year, as it became more difficult to keep watching for that...
  5. maenad

    Maenad's 2011 List

    26 December 2011 At the ballast bank in Troon. A quick burst of seawatching in very stormy conditions while the toddler had a nap gave us some more divers, a couple of gannets, and an auk. 142. Razorbill
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    Maenad's 2011 List

    20 December 2011 At Irvine, a year tick and a UK tick: 140. Red-breasted Merganser 141. Red-throated Diver
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    Maenad's 2011 List

    17 December 2011 We had high hopes for the end of the year, as we were planning on doing lots of birding in Scotland on our Christmas trip. Unfortunately, we've suffered various disasters, including illness for all the family, so only a few more ticks to add. At Caerlaverock WWT: 139...
  8. maenad

    Maenad's 2011 List

    10 December 2011 My kind husband gave me the afternoon off today, and dropped me off at Otmoor before taking the toddler away to the shops. The reserve was very dry and conspicuously short of birds for the most part. I had to hear the regret-inducing words 'there was a Hen Harrier over there...
  9. maenad

    Maenad's 2011 List

    12 November 2011 Oh dear. It should have been a lovely day at Slimbridge. Unfortunately, LP has reached the age where he doesn't want to be pushed around in his buggy - he wants to 'walk, Walk, WALK' all the time. To compound our misery, the hides were so busy that we could barely reach the...
  10. maenad

    Maenad's 2011 List

    9 October 2011 My next addition to the list isn't particularly showy - for most birders, I expect it's a spring staple, ticked off in March/April as a matter of course. But I'm particularly proud of it because I truly found this one myself on the local patch. No one mentioned that they were...
  11. maenad

    Maenad's 2011 List

    17 September 2011 At last! Since my last update, we've managed to buy a house and move into it, so birdwatching this summer has been non-existent. We celebrated the move, though, with a day at Slimbridge, and I added a good number of year ticks, and some very pleasing lifers. 127. Green...
  12. maenad

    Comment by 'maenad' in media 'Wood Sandpiper'

    Top shot of my favourite sandpiper, CactusD!
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  13. maenad

    Maenad's 2011 List

    28 June 2011 Domestic cares have stopped us doing any birdwatching for ages - I haven't had the binoculars out in weeks. It doesn't sound like that situation is going to change any time soon, but fortunately, I happened to look out of the train window this afternoon to see two Grey Partridges...
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    Maenad's 2011 List

    5 June 2011 No time at all for 'proper' birdwatching, but on the way home from the garden centre this morning, we were lucky enough to spot a Hobby over RAF Bicester. As it happens, we shortly thereafter realised we were going the wrong way, had to turn round, and saw it again on the way back...
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    Maenad's 2011 List

    24 May 2011 Do you ever feel it in your bones that a good bird is in the area? I walked home from the station at an unusual time today, and just had a funny feeling that I should stop for a minute at the river. Nothing on one side of the bridge, a party of mallards on the other, but I held my...
  16. maenad

    Maenad's 2011 List

    15 May 2011 A change of tactics today really paid off. We stayed local and visited two sites on either side of town. The boy loved seeing the cows beside Grimsbury Reservoir, and it was a good thing we weren't trying to be surreptitious, as he sang all the way round the local fields! 120...
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    Maenad's 2011 List

    14 May 2011 We took a trip to Otmoor this morning, but a gusty wind kept most of the small birds down. A drake Garganey was in the pools by the hide, and we may have glimpsed a Garden Warbler near the feeder, but not well enough to call. A fair number of Reed Warblers taunted me from the...
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    Maenad's 2011 List

    7 May 2011 I saw my first House Martins over Banbury as I walked back from voting in the AV referendum on Thursday night, and then today, as the rain stopped over Waitrose in Brackley, my first two swifts of the year. 118. Common Swift
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    Maenad's 2011 List

    2 May 2011 A definitely non-birding trip to the in-laws in Derbyshire brought me two year ticks, one in the local park (the toddler has fallen in love with swings) and one flying over the house. 116. Mistle Thrush 117. House Martin
  20. maenad

    Maenad's 2011 List

    18 April 2011 I have officially qualified as Best Wife Ever (tm): my husband is off birding in Lesvos for a fortnight, leaving me at home with the baby. I would have loved to go too, but we weren't sure how it would go with a 15-month-old child who inconveniently can't drink cows' milk. So I...
  21. maenad

    Maenad's 2011 List

    8 April 2011 It's been a very quiet two weeks for me in birding terms, mostly because it has not been at all quiet at work or at home. This afternoon, we took a trip to Brandon Marsh. I knew the Spotted Crake was there, but I didn't expect to see it. I have a very poor record with reedbed...
  22. maenad

    Maenad's 2011 List

    27 March 2011 In the words of my father, no doubt quoting someone wise, the spring is sprung, the grass is riz, I wonder where the birdies is? Why, they're at Grimsbury Reservoir this morning! :-O 100. Sand Martin 101. Willow Warbler
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    Maenad's 2011 List

    26 March 2011 A morning trip to Otmoor was a bit of a mixed bag. Some nice waders, courting Red Kites, and an extremely distant raptor on a post half a mile away. Scope was in the car as CactusD had the camera and I had the buggy, but careful analysis of the blurry snap and comparison with...
  24. maenad

    Maenad's 2011 List

    25 March 2011 I've been watching the beautiful spring weather from my desk for the past couple of weeks, but today, we finally escaped and found some migrants. Farmoor would have been lovely, were it not for the fog of mosquitoes. They swarmed round our heads, on the buggy, at our feet (the...
  25. maenad

    Maenad's 2011 List

    Also 11 March 2011 I almost forgot - heard my first warbler of the year: a Cetti's gave a quick burst of song from the reeds by the Zeiss hide.
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