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Winniefree
Winniefree
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Sounds amazing!
Surelynot
Surelynot
Aug 2024
5:40pm, 21 Aug 2024
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Some interesting birds there, @J2R
J2R
J2R
Aug 2024
7:20pm, 21 Aug 2024
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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.
tinebeest
tinebeest
Aug 2024
7:17am, 22 Aug 2024
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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.
J2R
J2R
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5:02pm, 22 Aug 2024
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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.
jacdaw
jacdaw
Aug 2024
5:08pm, 22 Aug 2024
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Robins singing their winter song today.
paulcook
paulcook
Aug 2024
7:47pm, 22 Aug 2024
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Would have just about understood that yesterday.
RooA
RooA
Aug 2024
1:44pm, 23 Aug 2024
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I JUST SAW A GOLDEN EAGLE! IT WAS FUCKING HUGE!!
Diogenes
Diogenes
Aug 2024
1:45pm, 23 Aug 2024
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Wow, this should be on the exciting thread as well. Definitely deserves the capital letters.
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
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1:51pm, 23 Aug 2024
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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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