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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allen S. Moore" data-source="post: 403748" data-attributes="member: 22662">I'm with you, Gill. Everybody has put my initial contribution to shame, too! Thanks for everyone's replies to the thread so far. I did not realise that my idea of this thread would give me so many holiday suggestions. I guess that there are threads elsewhere for the ultimate birdwatching experience, but having any species of Riflebird stealing your lunch would get my vote! Though we are very familiar with chaffinches here in Europe, and they have joined me for many picnics when I have been in the UK, I can imagine that seeing a male chaffie for the first time must be fine! Some of the island sub-species are good to join you, as well. A pair of the palmae subspecies joined a few of us dining outside a little cafe in the depths of the laurel forest at Los Tilos in the NE of La Palma on my first visit there 5 years ago. Another memorable experience for me in La Palma 2 years ago was to sit outside Bar San Borondon (San Borondon = Saint Brendan, who may have travelled back to Ireland from North America via the Canaries) with a grapefruit juice or something and watch 40 plain swifts overhead. I'd seen them many times before, but these little pleasures often make a holiday, don't they?</blockquote>