Chris Rodger
@chrisrodger74
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Mainly Nature, Conservation, Hill walking. Professional Ecologist: @Tringa_Ecology and Wildlife Guide. Scotland-based.
Joined January 2016
Just back from our @heatherleabirds Lesvos Tour; a week of fantastic birding on a beautiful island. Lots of highlights but best for me was experiencing an arrival of several Levant Sparrowhawk and enjoying the island specialities incl Cinereous Bunting & Rock Nuthatch
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Just back from another fantastic @heatherleabirds week on Cyprus. Some photos here, despite my camera being mainly on the blink. A good selection of scarce & rare migrants this year – thanks to @birdsaroundcy for keeping the news coming
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Tigers certainly delivered at Bandavgarh during our recent @heatherleabirds ‘Birds, Tigers & Taj’ tour. Tigers were seen on 5 of 6 of our jeep safaris, with 7 sightings involving 13 individuals.
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Great encounter with a male Leopard, Kruger NP, South Africa 03/02. Beautiful.
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Some more birds from Kenya Nov-Dec 24. Ross's Turaco, African Fish Eagle, Blue-cheeked Bee-eater and African Pygmy Falcon
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A week in to our @heatherleabirds Ultimate Kenya trip and there has been non-stop superb birding. Some screengrabs here; Martial Eagle, Kori Bustard, Somali Bee-eater and Golden-winged Sunbird
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A special Hornbill encounter was nesting Austen’s Brown Hornbill at Khao Yai NP. There were at least two males cooperatively feeding the female sealed inside the cavity. She has sealed herself in there for the whole duration of incubation and chick-rearing – at least 90 days.
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More Asian favourites; Hornbills. We saw several but star among them were this pair of White-crowned Hornbill and the unbelievably spectacular Rhinoceros Hornbill. Look at the casque on him! That colour is painted on by the application of preen oil.
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I’ve finally got-round to sifting photos from the Thailand & Malaysia trip from Feb-Mar. I’ll start with some of my favourites; the Laughingthrushes. Here are Lesser-necklaced, Chestnut-capped, Malayan and White-crested Laughingthrush.
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Despite the ‘megas’, I think my favourite bird from our recent Shetland trip was this Little Bunting at Burn of Sound. It showed amazingly well as it busily gleaned individual aphids from the underside of the birch leaves - a real joy to watch.
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Just a few of the fantastic group of over 100 White-beaked Dolphin which moved down the east coast of Shetland yesterday. Also seen were six or seven Orca and a Minke Whale, making for a very enjoyable wee break from migrant birding for our @heatherleabirds group
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Shetland produces another classic Siberian vagrant, with this Pechora Pipit at Quendale. A great start to the second week of the @Heatherleabirds Shetland for Birders trip!
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RT @Heatherleabirds: #Shetland on 🔥 y'day for our current group! 2 mega rarities - Lanceolated & Palla's Grasshopper Warbler just a few hou….
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For #SuperSeabirdSunday a celebration of the Tystie; the best bird of all in the UK! Photos from the fantastic colony around @NRonBirdObs, taken last month
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An amazing Orca experience during the @heatherleabirds Orkney High Summer trip. On Hoy we spent 3 hours continually watching this group of 11 hunting and playing. As we left the island, they came leaping towards, then right under the ferry. Fantastic!
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RT @Tringa_Ecology: What better for #SuperSeabirdSunday than the sight of mass nest-building by Black-legged Kittiwake? After several weeks….
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RT @Tringa_Ecology: One of the more interesting contracts this year is monitoring the breeding colony of Black-legged Kittiwake at Dunbar H….
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A selection of some of the great birds seen during the recent ‘Birding the NC500’ for @heatherleabirds
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