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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CactusD" data-source="post: 1832129" data-attributes="member: 57693">Very nice thread, and I also enjoy reading Steve's blog while he's out there and following things up with his book.  I reckon that Lesvos will our birding holiday destination next year, in mid-late April; must get a road map.  I'm both a birder and a photographer, but with the popular books and some reasonable fieldcraft I hope not to do anything bad to annoy anyone!  Most years I go to Greece quite a lot for work, so it will be interesting to finally go to a place there where there are lots of other birders; mostly I get odd looks when I'm out and about myself and am asked questions about why the hell I'd be wanting to look at birds rather than shoot them or eat them...:h?: Remembering a time in a taverna near Skhinias wetlands in Attika, and the shotgun cartridges everywhere; at least I got my first feldegg Yellow Wag there...</blockquote>