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Accommodation available in Alicante, Spain
Worcestershire birder Trevor Hannington has two apartments in Gran Alacant and can offer reasonably low priced birding holidays.
Views from the apartments
He has sites for Bonelli’s, Golden, Booted and Short-toed Eagles, Rufous Bush Chat, Red-necked Nightjar, Purple Gallinule, Audouin’s and Slender-billed Gulls, Marbled & White-headed Ducks, Griffon Vultures, Montagu’s Harrier, Moustached Warbler, Eagle Owl, Black Wheatear, Rock Sparrow, Rock Bunting, Pallid Swift, Calandra Lark, Little Bustard, Black-bellied & Pin-tailed Sandgrouse to name but a few and all within a short drive of the apartments.
Prices are available on request and each apartment sleeps 4/6 and are just 10 minutes from Alicante airport.
For further details please contact Trevor by email at trev@thannington.freeserve.co.uk or phone 07850 445857 and leave a message.
The beach at Gran Alicant
Birds 2008 DVD
A DVD collection of video and stills taken over the year in Worcestershire, the Midlands, North Norfolk, Cornwall and Scotland.
The subjects are mostly locally interesting birds with a few nationally scarce species and one or two common ones for good measure. Birds on the disc are:
Treecreeper Dipper Water Pipit Red-breasted Goose Mediteranean Gull Redstart
Great Grey Shrike Scandinavian Rock Pipit Blackcap Avocet Crested Tit Whimbrel
Garganey Common Crane Spotted Flycatcher Jack Snipe Bittern Sanderling
Crossbill Yellow Wagtail Black Redstart Bearded Tit Waxwing Capercaillie
Woodlark Shorelark Kestrel Spotted Redshank Little Gull Yellow-legged Gull
Red-backed Shrike Crossbill Great Northern Diver Red-throated Diver Dotterel
Little Stint Pectoral Sandpiper
The Disc is a Pal DVD. With full menus allowing selction of individual species. Running time just over 60 minutes. The aspect ratio of the image is 4:3 but the DVD is set for widescreen TV's. The video quality and quantity varies - some species have several minutes of good quality video, other are mere glimpses (e.g. Capercaillie, Crested Tit). There is no soundtrack.
A collection of video and stills taken over the year in Worcestershire, the Midlands, Devon and North Norfolk.
The subjects are mostly locally interesting birds with a few nationally scarce species and one or two common ones for good measure. A selection of photos of the more striking macro moths seen over a years trapping are also included.
The Disc is a Pal DVD. With full menus allowing selction of individual species. Running time is 40 minutes. Not all birds have video and the video quality varies. There is no soundtrack.Price only £5 (+60p postage)
Local birder Oliver Wadsworth has put together a DVD that includes both video footage and still images of birds and moths that he encountered during 2007. Many of the subjects were obtained within Worcestershire and includes video footage of Turnstone, Common Scoter and Scaup at Grimley along with Garganey, Wood Sandpiper, Curlew Sandpiper and Bar-tailed Godwit at Upton Warren. For anyone who saw the Wilson’s Phalarope at the latter site then the footage that Oliver obtained will provide a fitting momento to what was undoubtedly the bird of the year. Also featured, for the gull enthusiasts amongst us, is some record footage of an adult Caspian Gull at Throckmorton and a second-winter Glaucous Gull at Bartley Reservoir.
There is also some excellent images of birds obtained on an autumn trip to Norfolk, including a superb image of an unusually showy Barred Warbler and some equally good video footage of a juvenile Common Rosefinch.
If you enjoy moths, then there are some stunning images of these beautiful creatures, but if like me, you know next to nothing about them then this could well be a good introduction to getting hooked.
However, the star of the show has to be the adult Pomarine Skua at Chasewater in November. Oliver managed to obtain some stunning video of this confiding individual, so much so that it is worth the purchase price just for this! But be warned, you may not want to view one of the clips while eating!
Although there is no narration the DVD comes complete with a full index of the species included, allowing easy access to your favourite clips while the total running time is 40 minutes. For just £5 (+ 60p p+p) this DVD represents excellent value for money and is available directly from Oliver.
Brian Stretch, February 2008
DVDs by Steve Seal
Diary of a Warwickshire Birder 2007
Warwickshire Birding 2006
Warwickshire Birding 2005
£6 (+ 60p P+P) (available Jan 1st)
£5 (+ 60p P+P)
£5 (+ 60p P+P)
To place an order or for any queries please contact Steve at:
Warwickshire birder Steve Seal has compiled a DVD of birds he saw locally and nationally during 2007. Naturally there is an emphasis on birds that occurred in Warkwickshire with Draycote Water featuring prominently and an impressive list of species filmed here include Great Skua, Black-throated Diver, Grey Phalarope, Leach’s Petrel, Snow Bunting and Lesser Scaup. Other county highlights include the Greenland White-fronted Goose at Lea Marston, Grey Phalarope at Shustoke along with some excellent footage of a Great White Egret filmed at a private site.
Ring Ouzels on Bredon Hill are the sole representatives from Worcestershire while there is good coverage of rarities that occurred elsewhere in the Midlands, from the remarkable arrival of 17 Glossy Ibises at Frampton, Gloucestershire to the confiding juvenile Long-tailed Skua near Nottingham. Further afield the Pacific Diver in Yorkshire, White-billed Diver in Cornwall and Wilson’s Phalarope in Cambridgeshire are all well worth a look.
Brief but informative narration is provided by Bob Duckhouse with the total running time being 41 minutes. This DVD includes excellent footage of many of the highlights of 2007 and serves as a great reminder for those lucky enough to have seen them. It is available directly from Steve for just £6 (+ 60p p+p).
