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News · 15. September 2016
It's mid September and bird migration is in full swing. What else could a birder wish more? This motivation leaded me almost every morning to a birding walk in the hope of finding the one rare bird amongst the masses of resting migrants. Nevertheless, this sadly turned out to be just wishful thinking. First, the number of resting waders quickly decreased, although some lakes close by offered excellent mudbanks. In the most cases there was just a single individual of one of the more common...

News · 08. September 2016
I know, it's been a long while since the last update, but I've been very busy over the last weeks and had no time for keeping this blog up to date. Originally this post was planned three weeks earlier (last update: 28.08.16), so here it finally is: Today I wanted to find some resting raptors and maybe even a flock of the seclusive Dotterel. The mainly agricultural land around the small village Merkendorf looked very nice on the first glance, however there wasn't much of interest and so I soon...

News · 06. September 2016
It has been quite a busy week, even so busy that I didn't have time for writing blog posts about my last sightings. So here is finally the late summary of a superb birding week. After the sucessful twitch of the Pygmy Cormorant I had no real plans for the next days and where to go birding instead. As normally when this question raises, I paid my favourite reserve a visit, the Großer Wörth. Contrary to my earlier fears, the mudbanks were exposed and filled with hundreds of geese, cormorants...