It’s that time again. Last year when I did this, I’d been birding in Spain in the spring and then the Galapagos and Ecuador in the autumn. This year has been less dramatic—no albatrosses or toucans—but I did see some great stuff in Crete in April.
First, though, some local stuff. There have been Little Grebes [...]
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Bird of the Year 2007
31 December 2007 – 3:59 pm
Exciting Bird News!
8 February 2007 – 4:43 pm
Admittedly, it’s not actually a very exciting bird, even for a birder, looking as it does rather like a drabber-than normal town pigeon. And due to poor light, streaky window glass and so on, it’s a rubbish photo:
But it’s a new species for the garden: Stock Dove, Columba oenas. I don’t really expect to see [...]