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Wonderful Waxwings
... areas of the northern hemisphere, where people are probably a rare site, they have a surprising tendency to turn up in unexpected and thoroughly un-widernessy areas. Look for them in Tesco car parks, outside KFCs and on business and industrial parks and don't expect to see them during a pleasant rural stroll. There's a reason. They are not the chavs of the bird world. They don't like to break in to unattended cars. However the sort of places that they are seen ...
Final thoughts
A the time of uploading this entry, we've had 731 visits by you guys. A big thank you to you all from both of us. We've enjoyed relating our experiences and it's nice to know that we've not been wasting our time.....
Final day's thoughts and observations from both of us!
I identified the tree - Indian Flame Tree - and as you can see it's stunning!
The Chinese fishing nets are non-functioning today - Phil was keen to video the cantilever action - must be ...
Just a map pin
Gracia, Sant Roc, Sants, Santa Tecla, La Merce – apparently 5 Catalan festivals weren't enough for us this year. We usually go away for my birthday for a few days and this year Julie found a Festa Major in the small town of Altafulla, on the coast just north east of Tarragona with castellers on my birth date. A chance to see a new part of Catalunya and do some birding too. Read ...
Hail to the Bunting
... where one of the last remaining pieces of unimproved chalk downland in the county is preserved. I had read that there had been lots of Ring Ouzels seen there in the week and as I hadn’t been there before I thought I would try to find it and have a look. With a bit of luck the sun might even have come over the horizon by the time I got there, although I didn’t hold out much hope of actually seeing any sunshine.
The first indicator that ...
Some more sea-watching
Our last day in Norfolk and I started off with the migration watchers again for an hour before breakfast. There were far fewer Jays passing through this morning with less than 20 seen, but overall bird numbers seemed similar with plenty of flocks of small birds passing over frequently.
Having packed and vacated our rooms the five of us drove into Hunstanton to look for breakfast. There weren't many places open and we ended up in the Wash ...
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