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News · 29. August 2016
As promised some weeks earlier - here comes the first post about my trip to Norfolk. I start with my up to now favourite site in the UK - the Cley Marshes. The extensive marshland area situated next to the sea is an excellent place to observe lots of waders (more than 50 species are recorded !) all around the year - or in other words it is the heaven for all birders who come from the inland. The only problem was actually to get there from my accomodation in Norwich, as the public transport...

News · 23. August 2016
I had just left Bamberg for holidays when the news reached me that two rarities had turned up in Franconia. The first was a Short-toed Eagle at the Förmitzspeicher (district of Hof) and the second a Pygmy Cormorant at the Goldbergsee (district of Coburg). Of course I thought at first that I wouldn't get a chance to see even one of them having yet seven days of my holidays ahead. And - as expected - it took no longer than two days until the Short-toed Eagle finally left the Förmitzspeicher....