Birding weekend

[alcina2]

Marking not too excessive this weekend, so I spent a long weekend in Devon and Dorset, birding madly all of the seven or so daylight hours until I am exhausted, and driving a little over 800 miles. Things went fairly well; of the seven target birds I got five (American wigeon, desert wheatear, lesser yellowlegs, green-winged teal, and rose-coloured

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[alcina2]

Thank you. The feeling is mutual.

[tiggymalvern]

Well, you won't be in the top 100 if you keep going off chasing a few rare things, and not spending the first few days of January in optimal habitat for stacking up the count of common things. The choices you're forced to make!