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Rainy Day? New Hometown Birding Spot!

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While making sure my kid didn’t launch himself off a high structure, I noted Eastern Bluebirds, Northern Cardinals, Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Downy Woodpeckers , and potentially a Brown-headed Nuthatch , though the latter only called once so I’m not 100% sure.

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Birding Around the Farm

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Most notably of which was a pair of Blood-colored Woodpeckers. Blood-colored Woodpecker Another sighting that got everyone running was of a Point-tailed Palmcreeper. I honestly don’t understand the need to sneak up on a snail but then again what do I know, when I was little I had a pet turtle that ran away.

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Birding Lake Kerkini, Greece: Three Lazy Days

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The northern half of the lake added Corn Bunting , European Turtle Dove , Dalmatian Pelican , Purple Heron , Eurasian Hobby , Eurasian Golden Oriole , Eurasian Green Woodpecker , and only the first of the several Masked Shrikes of the tour (cover photo by Kostas Papadopoulos).

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Some therapeutic post-lockdown birding

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200 metres / 650 feet lower, amid fields, hedges and rivers, I was surrounded by Eurasian Golden Orioles , Common Nightingales , even a few threatened European Turtle Doves. Grey-headed Woodpecker by Krishna Prajapati / Wikimedia Commons.

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The World Before – Lake Karla, Greece

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, Red-rumped Swallows , a Crested Lark , several Red-backed Shrikes (both adults and juveniles), Eurasian Golden Oriole , several Lesser Kestrels , Syrian Woodpecker , Short-toed Eagle , Western Marsh Harrier , Eurasian Spoonbills and a Squacco Heron , Pygmy Cormorants (a lifer for Clive), one Mediterranean Gull , Redshank , Greenshank , European Turtle (..)

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Finding birds in Deliblato Sands, part 1/3: the largest sand dune system of Europe

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Characteristic birds of these dry and sunny areas are Eurasian Hoopoe , European Turtle-Dove and European Bee-eater ; Lesser Grey and Red-backed Shrikes (in winter replaced by the Great Grey Shrike ), Woodlark , Skylark and Crested Lark , Sand Martin , Barred Warbler , Northern Wheatear , Tawny and Tree Pipits.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2024

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Other signs of spring approaching include Long-tailed Shrike couples chasing each other … … and Oriental Turtle Doves sitting very closely together (though maybe they do that all year round).

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