foresttwitcher
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Agree, good stuff - I've sailed past the island, perhaps I should have called in for a look around!
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Ouessant October 2018 (1 Viewer)
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Mark Lew1s
My real name is Mark Lewis
And here's what I could have won - a summary of what else was available on the island the week I was there:
Pallid harrier
Rosy starling
Short toed lark
Red-breasted flycatcher (at least 3 others)
Olive backed pipit (x2)
Great and Cory's shearwater
Leach's petrel
Sabines gull
Raddes warbler
at least one more subalpine warbler
'Eastern' lesser whitethroat x2
probably 2 more little buntings
A third Blyth's pipit!
Pallas's warbler
4? common rosefinch
A couple of tristis chiffchaffs
well over 40 YBW on the island - of which I saw about 25 I think
Looking at that, I think I probably should have found at least something else of note! A small thrush with a dark bar on the underwing was also seen a couple of days after I left.
It's not always that good - but a nice example of what a week on the island could be like if you wanted to go for everything.
Pallid harrier
Rosy starling
Short toed lark
Red-breasted flycatcher (at least 3 others)
Olive backed pipit (x2)
Great and Cory's shearwater
Leach's petrel
Sabines gull
Raddes warbler
at least one more subalpine warbler
'Eastern' lesser whitethroat x2
probably 2 more little buntings
A third Blyth's pipit!
Pallas's warbler
4? common rosefinch
A couple of tristis chiffchaffs
well over 40 YBW on the island - of which I saw about 25 I think
Looking at that, I think I probably should have found at least something else of note! A small thrush with a dark bar on the underwing was also seen a couple of days after I left.
It's not always that good - but a nice example of what a week on the island could be like if you wanted to go for everything.
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