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Top ten birds for 2016

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The same experience was to be had at Rutland Water, so watch out for the sneaky upside down ducks! White-breasted Dipper has to be my number one bird for 2016 and it is quite simply a beautiful little bird that we had never observed in the UK! Finally it turned itself the right way up and was a Pintail Duck ! Pintail Duck.

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Quinta do Casal Branco: Lobo e Falcão Reserva (2016)

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This week’s wine is the 2016 Lobo e Falcão Reserva from the 17 th -century estate of Quinta do Casal Branco , located in the Tejo region upriver from Lisbon. Quinta do Casal Branco: Lobo e Falcão Reserva (2016). The post Quinta do Casal Branco: Lobo e Falcão Reserva (2016) appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of November 2016)

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Will 2016 never end? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. While Americans gear up for the face-stuffing family time that is Thanksgiving the rest of the world looks on in horror as the Trump administration starts to take shape. Will anything survive four years of Trump?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of November 2016)

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We may not see as many 2016 species as Arjan Dwarshuis ( epic! ), but happiness is a journey, not a destination, right? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I suffered a deficit of happiness this weekend when my scheduled birding time became subsumed by a rare work emergency.

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My Top Ten Birds of 2016 (or, Let’s Remember the Good Things about 2016)

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Many sad and unfortunate things occurred in 2016, but the birding was good. I think this might be my best bird of 2016. There is no experience comparable to birding a dump, and, I have to say, I have never experienced a dump like this one. It was a good birding year. There were several there, plus Lesser Adjutants.

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Wrapping up a very good 2016

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The depth of knowledge, and experience shown here, as well as the writing skills leave me in awe most every week, as I scroll thru the weekly entries. In an effort to look back on the year, I have added, and deleted, written and scratched off, a list of birds that would represent my “Best Ten Birds” of 2016.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of January 2016)

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He didn’t see them do a courtship dance but their elegance was more than enough to leave him happy about the experience. Since 2016 has been pretty birdless for me so far, I’ll go with my first bird of the year, American Crow. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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