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Birding Bob
Robert Williamson
Gannet and Kittiwake are correct :t:
Birding Bob
Robert Williamson
ColonelBlimp
What time is bird?
In the past few days, I've searched high and low for hobbies. Dip dip dip dip dip. Depression. Hatred.
But just half and hour ago, in a secluded valley somewhere in Derbyshire, a funny sound could be heard. A happy birder doing a mixture of ticking and swearing!
Two soaring over my head, scything after the swallows and swifts. Magic!
But just half and hour ago, in a secluded valley somewhere in Derbyshire, a funny sound could be heard. A happy birder doing a mixture of ticking and swearing!
Two soaring over my head, scything after the swallows and swifts. Magic!
Birding Bob
Robert Williamson
correct
tjbirdofprey
Dorset birder in Spain
I saw two hobbies today while my aunt was driving to Weymouth, My bogey bird finally defeated!!!!o
TheSeagull
Well-known member
Think I seen a Red Kite yesterday, well according to the thread I made in identification anyway. I've added it to my life list, it could have been Buzzard but well...couldn't resist
MCspudd
Bird, what bird!
Hi everyone just come back from crete and i saw 6 lifers and they were 10 Griffin vultures, 1 lesser whitethrought, 50+ alpine swift, 4 red-rumped swallow, 1 audouins gull and 4 scopolis shearwater all the other birds i saw were hooded crows, chaffinch, goldfinch, buzzard, swallows, herring gull and swift.( Please check blog to se pics of the birds after 6pm )
jimmyg
Good game boys, good game!
Just got back from an amazing two-week holiday in western Poland with Simeon and Connor. We scooped 155 species - amazing for the time of year - including a few species not really recorded in the area before, and birds such as Black Woodpecker, Aquatic Warbler and White-tailed Eagle. We should be well-equipped for autumn migration! Other highlights included bouts of tripod jousting, a day trip in a dinghy, and wading through leech-infested swamp. I'll let you know when Simeon, Connor or I have finished out trip reports so you can read them or just look at the photos. Thanks to Wiktoria for her help and information on her amazing country!
TheSeagull - you need to add Poland to your gap-year itinerary!
TheSeagull - you need to add Poland to your gap-year itinerary!
tjbirdofprey
Dorset birder in Spain
mr.sim
Honourable founding member of the "day late" gang
My Polish year-list (from the two-week holiday) is 155 - only about 10 behind my UK yearlist (from 6 months in Norfolk!) - shows how little I've been bothered to get out really.
Birds of the trip were things like Aquatic Warbler and Black Woodpecker, also had Middle-Spotted Woodpecker, 13 species of raptor (highlights including lesser-spotted eagle, white-tailed eagle, honey buzzard, black kite etc.) and 16 species of warbler (highlights including icky, marsh, savi's, river, aquatic, barred and great reed...). Also loads of White Storks, Black Storks and Great-White Egrets!
Full trip report will probably take a while to do but will notify everyone when its done...good to be back! :t:
Birds of the trip were things like Aquatic Warbler and Black Woodpecker, also had Middle-Spotted Woodpecker, 13 species of raptor (highlights including lesser-spotted eagle, white-tailed eagle, honey buzzard, black kite etc.) and 16 species of warbler (highlights including icky, marsh, savi's, river, aquatic, barred and great reed...). Also loads of White Storks, Black Storks and Great-White Egrets!
Full trip report will probably take a while to do but will notify everyone when its done...good to be back! :t:
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Wiktoria
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Wow! This is 13 species more than I've seen in Poland since I started birding, I should be embarrassed!
I'm looking forward to reading it!
You're welcome. I'm glad that Poland didn't disappoint you ^^
I told birderbf that Poland is a great place to bird in and you guys confirm it :t:
btw, yesterday another visit to Jamaica Bay with birderbf : 7 lifers and a Least Bittern among them ^^
birderbf
Wild, Wild West ................... ern Spindalis
Poland sounds like a very good place to me, especially for someone who has barely birded in Europe. I have never really taken a walk in the woods off my continent. It's strange only birding from cities. For example, in Spain some towns had Gold and Greenfinches and there were Linnets and Serins in the less populated area, but I still couldn't dig up a Chaffinch. :C
That Least Bittern was only my second one ever, and my first in New York (which is now my primary listing region). It was my 314th species in the state, including several species not yet confirmed for the state list (including origin-uncertain geese) and a wandering Trumpeter Swan from the introduced population in Ontario. After taxes, that translates into 310 or thereabouts.
Wiktoria
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There are lots of them in my neighborhood. This spring for two days I could even hear it from my room. But it used to be my the most embarrassing species that I hadn't seen for over one year after I started birding
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Chaffinch! I thought you meant Chiffchaff. I heard that a Chaffinch is the most numerous bird in Poland ^^ You can encounter it in the forests, parks and any other place where are at least a few trees
PS Sorry, English names are sometimes quite confusing for me!
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