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Mike Cross

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Would be grateful for any help possible. Wife is dead set on going to Lake Garda and I am most definitely not. The prospect of not being able to set foot off tarmac in a bird-less desert devoid of any birdlife and full of gun totting people just doesn't do it for me! Otherwise I'd go to Essex, which is cheaper!
Has anyone got any really good believable reasons/excuses not to go - no matter how spurious. Would be really grateful for any help with this.

Mike
 
I'm with you, Lake Garda is not so good for birds in summer season.
And... Yes, it's full of tourists, a lot from northern countries: Germany, Netherlands, UK, ...
So probably the reason of bird-less land is for foreigners(???) 8-P

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Is probably East Sussex better than Essex?

cheers B :)
 
Garda

Maurizio's right, avoid in summer (even though Goosander breeds in the middle of the hordes of tourists!), but any other time can be fantastic. "Like what?" you ask . . . Well, in the last year or so: Pallas's Warbler, Caspian and WWB Terns, Western Reef Heron, Little Bittern, Moustached Warbler, Pom Skua, hundreds of Black-necked Grebes, Penduline Tit. And that's from memory, which isn't my best attribute. Go on, indulge your wife! If you rent a car, within half an hour you could be watching Rock Thrush, Short-toed and Golden Eagle, Black-eared Wheatear, Black Grouse, and who knows what else. And people say there are no birds in Italy!

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