It's a bugger trying to maintain a blog during the winter with these awful short days...sorry for the lack of blog-action!
As well as work and winter, I've been away for a long-weekend in Barcelona. Not a birding trip at all - the bins were left at home! It was a city trip, seeing the sights, eatin the food and drinkin anything they served us.
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Barca is an amazing city with lots to see, some nice parks, lots of public art and some great bars and restaurants. We saw the amazing La segrada familla - a huge temple, still under construction, we went to the Picasso museum, Camp Nou (not for
El Clasico though), Las Ramblas....I could go on.
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We did see some birds, lots of ring-necked and monk parakeets, a flock of black redstarts and some crag martins around the castle and yellow-legged gulls at the port.
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Back to Druridge briefly this morning to hoy some food down for the non-existent twite - not even any golfinches there this morning....grim!
2 comments:
i seen around 100 twite yesterday just past cresswell pond, opposite that farm, there were also around 50 goldfinches.
Bittern was there and a juvenille scaup and an otter.
Interesting...hopefully it is the sme 50 or so goldfinches that have been coming to our niger and now I have replenished it, they might bring their twitey friends along too!
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