Fetch Birdwatchers
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165 watchers
21 Aug
5:07pm, 21 Aug 2024
7,992 posts
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Winniefree
Sounds amazing!
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21 Aug
5:40pm, 21 Aug 2024
2,984 posts
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Surelynot
Some interesting birds there, @J2R
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21 Aug
7:20pm, 21 Aug 2024
5,579 posts
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J2R
The fascination for me with somewhere like Bulgaria is that it's a mix between very familiar birds (the high mountain forests here are full of bluetits, great tits, robins, wrens, just like my lowland garden back home) and birds which you don't get at all at home, like the sombre tit, or birds which are far less common at home such as the corn bunting. I spent some time working in California many years ago and found the birdlife there not so relatable, because hardly anything was familiar.
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22 Aug
7:17am, 22 Aug 2024
294 posts
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tinebeest
Derby Tup wrote: I wonder if the ‘stick’ could have been an eel? Nope, I had a pretty good view of it. Perhaps some nest repair was in order 😆 @J2RYes to unrelatable birdlife! I was in the US for ten years, took me a while to get used to the birds on the east coast. (What they call a Robin there is the size of a double decker bus IMHO). Whenever I travelled west, it became even more adventurous! I now miss humming birds, they were the sight and sound of summer for me. |
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22 Aug
5:02pm, 22 Aug 2024
5,580 posts
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J2R
Forgot to mention crested tits in my roundup yesterday! Definitely a good day. Today wasn't quite so rich, but I was able to observe at length, with my binoculars (yes!), a gorgeous male crossbill who perched obligingly at the top of a small pine just by the mountain hut where I was enjoying a fine cold beer which felt well-earned after a very brisk and relentless uphill hike. Otherwise there were more bee-eaters and a handsome nuthatch (hopping around near the crossbill). Lots and lots of house martins and swallows here. |
22 Aug
5:08pm, 22 Aug 2024
4,554 posts
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jacdaw
Robins singing their winter song today.
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22 Aug
7:47pm, 22 Aug 2024
6,251 posts
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paulcook
Would have just about understood that yesterday.
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23 Aug
1:44pm, 23 Aug 2024
2,826 posts
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RooA
I JUST SAW A GOLDEN EAGLE! IT WAS FUCKING HUGE!!
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23 Aug
1:45pm, 23 Aug 2024
87,762 posts
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Diogenes
Wow, this should be on the exciting thread as well. Definitely deserves the capital letters.
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23 Aug
1:51pm, 23 Aug 2024
67,644 posts
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Derby Tup
I saw one with a walking guide in the Alps. He pointed it out and I asked how do you know (it wasn’t perched in a hedge). When he asked me to describe it I used the word magnificent (it was). He said if you look in my old Collins guide in the van that is part of the description hence QED
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