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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reader" data-source="post: 1681344" data-attributes="member: 234">I have done very little birding in Britain this year so finding anything special has been severely limited but I have to admit that being part of the twitch to see the Eastern-crowned Warbler at South Shields in October would take some beating for me (a first for Britain and I think only the fourth for Europe).Away from these shores is a different matter having had 16 days in Morocco and three weeks in South Africa.  At both places the list would be too much to give here but in Morocco it would have to be Levaillant's Woodpecker because I had all but given up on seeing one and managed one right at the very end of the trip.  There was no more birding done after we saw it.In South Africa I had 289 Lifers.  How do you pick from that but for sheer beauty the Diedrick Cuckoo takes some beating and a non-bird moment would have to be the huge old male Lion that walked right by our car in Kruger N.P. Photos below of both (you judge how beautiful the Cuckoo is).John</blockquote>