Hiya!
Sing along now . . . .
Everybody needs somebody . . . . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHV0zs0kVGg
OK. Feel better after that?
Long time
no write and so much has happened since last I did.
Yesterday
a dip (missed bird) with friends was disappointing but part of the
carbon twitching life. Birds have wings. They fly away. Yet after
flying the Atlantic from America it, a mega rare Yellow Warbler,
could have least have stayed around for longer than the afternoon of
the previous day. Oh well, great to catch up with so many friends and
if one more birder says, “ did you cycle here?” I'll . . . .
Actually
it is rather nice to be recognised by so many strangers to me. One
even shouted, “I gave you a sausage roll last year!”
A message
this morning from Leonidas, a Green Birder cycling from Miami, USA to
Cusco, Peru, saying the birding was slow.
just
combining my two passions, starting slow with the birds looking
forward to be in Central America. I'm
working on my bird list I'll appreciate all your help on this
adventure and definitely I'll see you in Cusco next year thank you
again
An
incredible undertaking, let's all wish the intrepid young man a safe
ride with hundreds of birds.
Birdfair
last weekend was an incredible, uplifting experience. I particularly
enjoyed the talks attended and seeing so many friends there. I also
spent a lot of time meeting up with people who will hopefully be
involved with my next adventure, the Biking Birder Peru trip 2018.
At last I
have got to meet the legendary Gunnar Engbolm!
And David
Lindo.
And Mark
Thomas.
The
Israeli team from The Champions of The Flyway were here.
And the
video of the event is superb. My Brummie-accent coming to the fore
with my spluttered 'phenomenal day.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lshY9kZMIZ8&t=3s
So many
issues, people and events to show in more detail. I will be taking
some time to each justice I hope in the next few days.
I gave a
talk on Sunday last. Well attended which was a surprise, I had
thought it might be one man and his dog, all left laughing at the
end. My talk involves elements missing from all others; dancing,
singing and audience participation! I do so hope some of you may be
able to attend my talks when I go around Britain giving talks this
winter.
So back to
now. Mum's 85th birthday today. Love her to bits, my
Little Miss Sunshine.
Off to The
Isles of Scilly with two Birding Clams this weekend, Jason Oliver and
Tony Barter, for a pelagic trip out into the Atlantic, hoping for
Wilson's Storm Petrels and Great Shearwaters.
Then an
all-dayer competition at my local patch, Upton Warren punctuates my
journey north back to North Ronaldsay Bird Observatory. It is going
to be fabulous to see the team again.
Love to
you all xxx Gary
