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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of June 2016)

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Mid-June has so much to offer in the temperate zones, with breeders in one half of the world and migrants in the other. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Those of you in the tropical zones can enjoy your resident birds in peace for once. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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What to Do at High Island When the Winds are South

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I’m sure regular visitors to this area could tell you more about how the winds and tides affect the migrating birds and when the breeders start to nest. This was the High Island Experience, I was told. I was just happy to enjoy the show, one that apparently is just as good in winter as in spring. Anahuac NWR–Skillern Tract.

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Andalucia’s City-Slicker Falcons

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They can be challenging to identify, especially if you haven’t seen one before, though with experience they are not really so difficult. The birds I saw there were most likely Asian breeders, for they don’t start to migrate north until March, by which time the European-breeding birds are already crossing the Mediterranean.

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