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The Birds In The Garden And Everywhere Else Thread

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Super “talonted “ walking on thin ice.

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A female European Honey Buzzard Bird was fitted with a satellite tracking system in Finland recently and was of particular interest to locals because it spent the most recent austral summer around the town of Reitz in the Free State in South Africa. She left Reitz to start heading north on 20 April and on the 2nd of June, she finally reached Finland where she will probably spend the boreal summer before probably returning again next season for a visit in South Africa.
Here is an image showing the data received from the tracker which plots out the route that she took to head north... so, in just 42 days, she covered over 10 000 km at an average of more than 230 km every single day! Isn’t that just amazing...?!"
What is amazing is how she took a straight line north except for when she had to fly over water. (or Sudan)
Apparently she turned right at the source of the Nile and followed it. It is still fascinating that after that deviation she returned to the same longitudinal line she started on and continued until she reached her destination. Mother nature at its most fascinating best!
 

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Uncanny. My old man used to get lost just after leaving our street. Or maybe that was tactics to make my mother or me drive. 🤔
 
Spent a few days in Spain last week and just sorted through the snaps I took. Here's a few of them, mostly from a visit to the Gredos Mountains.

Booted Eagle
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Serin
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Spotted Flycatcher

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Common Buzzard
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And a few of an old favourite of a few on here, Red Kite
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