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Nice, Nice Birding in Narita

10,000 Birds

This terrific waterway, flanked with paths and studded with stepping stone bridges, is home to a lot of Eastern Spot-billed Ducks and Eurasian Teals. Eastern Spot-billed Ducks We crossed the channel to enter the stunning Temple Gardens. I’m amazed at how similar my day list is to that of others that have worked this route.

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Moorcroft Manor, a Great Place to Lay a Birding Head Down

10,000 Birds

Groups of Cape Turtle Doves feeding on the grass were occasionally joined by a nervous and much larger Rameron Pigeon, and Southern Grey-headed Sparrows and a single Bokmakierie hoped around as well. It was perhaps unsurprising that the lake at the end of the garden attracted the lion’s share of the birds.

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