halftwo
Wird Batcher
Yeah...i do mean 'grizzly' adams...[as he was known].....lovely chap....good laugh...sad loss.
Indeed, U. Some of my earliest serious birding days sometimes included him. RIP
Yeah...i do mean 'grizzly' adams...[as he was known].....lovely chap....good laugh...sad loss.
And no doubt, like many of us, you actually paid good money to enjoy(?) that particular experience...I've nearly been hurled off the back of a tractor on a Turkish mountainside...
Maybe not exactly life threatening but an angry maltese bird/rabbit with a shotgun yelling and swearing at you is nerving enough. In the past there have been closer confrontations...
managed to get shot at by bird hunters who presumably thought I was a bird because I was skulking
Might I suggest you are listening to the wrong news channel.
This week, two French nationals seized in Mogadishu - now handed over to al-Shabab and will be subject to Sharia trial for "conspiracy against Islam". This week, in the south, gunmen crossed the border into Kenya and seized three foreign aid workers, taking them back to Somalia.
The whole of the south is basically under the control of hardline radical movements and none of it is even close to safe.
You might wish to try a pelagic seabird trip off their coastline however - these pelagics are slightly expensive though, the current rate is about US $1.8 million for a typical three-month sit out on the fair waters off Eyl. I would guess Socotra Cormorants might get a little boring after a month or two.
And no doubt, like many of us, you actually paid good money to enjoy(?) that particular experience...
Richard
Personally I reckon if Jos thinks its dangerous I would only go there in a Challenger 2 loaded for bear, and I'm not sure I'd see a lot of birds that way!
John
Dug this up from an old thread to confirm:Just how 'hard core' is Jos then....does he act like a 'terminator' with binoculars?....
I guess to date most of my birding acts have only been irresponsible to my own safety, birding the hinterlands of Afghanstan, picking my way through a mined area in Eritrea and the like, occasional encounters with beasties where perhaps it wasn't so wise to walk, but the reality I have never considered any of them outwardly risky. I guess potentially a tad insensitive, if not irresponsible, was picking my way across the devastation of the tsunami, then (though admittedly numbed by the dead around me) scanning for terns on the beach ...she who I was travelling with would not speak to me after that!
Dug this up from an old thread to confirm:
i regularly walk thru fields with some really nasty stinging nettles in it...
I got stung by a bee in Khao Yai, does this count?
Depends on the type of bee:eek!:
When I was birding in Zimbabwe, I had to decide whether or not to go for Pel's Fishing Owl on an island in the Zambezi River. The trip to the island was easy, only problem was the long reeds that hide hippos! Went for it anyway, got the owl, and missed the hippos! Not quite in the league of Jos, but good to get the adrenaline going anyway, never knowing what is going to burst out of the reeds!
Andrew