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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

OMG!

Posted by Phil Benstead at 7:32 PM

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Mike WatsonNovember 26, 2010 at 7:35 PM
The devil makes work... Yawn. Glad to see you are sill getting out a lot, eep up the good work mate! Mike
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Phil Benstead: I am an English birder based, together with my Anglo-Swedish family, in the middle of the Bjäre peninsula in southern Sweden. We moved here from Norfolk in 2007 and have not looked back. The birding is very high quality. The number of birds that remain in the wider countryside is fantastic and the visible migration in spring and autumn is breathtaking. Fewer rare birds than in Britain no doubt, but there are fewer birders so it is mostly primary action. I only spend two-thirds of the year in Sweden though. I am lucky enough to spend the remainder of the year birding abroad.

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Darjeeling (India) 2003
Ethiopia 2007
Georgia 1998
Indonesia 2001
Namibia 2002
Nepal 2000
Northern Mexico 2004
NW Argentina 2003
Philippines 2001
Sabah 2001
Sabah 2004
Texas and New Mexico 2002
Thailand 2000-01
Uganda 2004

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