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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carol Baldock" data-source="post: 3333645" data-attributes="member: 131394">Rob and my top 5 birds of the year ( hard to choose order of preference ) :1) Short - Eared Owl - a complete surprise, whilst twitching a ring-neck duck, drake, at Hardley Staithe - the owl blew us away and gave us crippling, close , views and then flew over our heads.2) Wryneck in Winterton Dunes, whilst twitching and dipping a blue throat - again a complete surprise to see the wryneck, which perched for an age in 2 separate trees, in the clear, giving us extensive and clear views through the scope3) Booted Eagles flying so close over our heads on the Portuguese Algarve, that we felt that we could reach out and touch them.4) A group of Hawfinches , male and female showing incredibly well in leaf litter at Lynford Arboretum- we needed our elbows here though, for the crowd that was also looking at them...5) 2 Ospreys in Scotland ( not at Loch Garten) ... one still on the nest, stretching / flapping its wings and practicing its flight. we went the next day - one had already left. the other remained and we were fortunate to see it fly away south.</blockquote>