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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jan Van den Broeck" data-source="post: 1921453" data-attributes="member: 39695">Time for an updateOctober 2009 brought me back to KwaZulu-Natal where I had the honour of showing Mike and Susan Cobley around in the St-Lucia area. We focused mainly on the Isimangaliso Wetland Park area. The species count was 230 in 12 days. On the way to RSA in Dubai we saw an Isabelline wheatear. In RSA a Parasitic weaver ('Cuckoo finch') was the only lifer for me during the entire trip, but a bird I had been looking for for a long time. I found three of these birds on the Eastern shores of Lake St-Lucia.1186: Isabelline Wheatear - Oenanthe isabellina1187: Parasitic Weaver - Anomalospiza imberbisApril 2010 I visited Athens and the Peloponnesos with my son Wim and my best friend Wim for a short 1-week mixed cultural and walking trip. This added a few lifers to the list:1188: Rock Nuthatch - Sitta neumayer1189: Cetti's Warbler - Cettia cetti1190: Yellow-legged Gull - Larus michahellis1191: Short-toed Snake Eagle - Circaetus gallicus1192: Cirl Bunting - Emberiza cirlus1193: Blue Rock-Thrush - Monticola solitarius1194: Woodchat Shrike - Lanius senator1195: Sardinian Warbler - Sylvia melanocephalaI have recently moved from Ireland to Bergen, Norway.End of June I was a few days in Tromso for a conference. I also managed to get out for a day and had three lifers (Dotterel, Temminck's stint and Red-throated Loon) and two more I had a few weeks ago here in the neighbourhood, including my (former) boogie bird the goshawk.1196: Dotterel - Charadrius morinellus1197: Temminck's Stint - Calidris temminckii1198: Red-throated Diver - Gavia stellata1199: Ring Ouzel - Turdus torquatus1200: Goshawk - Accipiter gentilis</blockquote>

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