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Birding in a Hellmouth

10,000 Birds

I’m not sure if I already was claustrophobic , or if the circumstances merely traumatized me to the point I became one, right there and then. The next day we tried mist netting the cave entrance, and the day after I abandoned the project entirely. A Bat Hawk hunting bats. I think we caught perhaps three bats.

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Aplomado Twitch in Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

They are the Desert Wheatears and Siberian Thrushes that abandon all reason and fly to Britain (maybe they heard about the UK Birdfair ?). In fact, right now, in all likelihood, there probably are a few Aplomados up that way hunting in some far off fields never visited by birders. Happy birders looking at an Aplomado Falcon.