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Birding Sarajevo or the sentimental journey home

10,000 Birds

Right: Water Pipits landing on my car and sliding down the windscreen. And in the middle of a heatwave of the 2012 summer, I was heading to Sarajevo and Jahorina Mountain, a major venue of the 1984 Winter Olympics. The scorching sun was right above my head. And the day was tropical. Encouraged, I follow the dirt track up.

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