Monday, April 23, 2007

Hoopoe

When I got back from school today I decided it would be nice to drop by the Kromme Rade, a long stretched path right through good habitat for warblers and especially a good place for Dragon- and Damselfly's.
When I started packing I got a phone call from Jan that he was looking for the Iberian Chiffchaff but couldn't find the right spot, I put him on the right track and later got a message that he'd found the bird.
The more interesting phonecall came 1 hour after that.
When I was minutes from leaving my phone rang, Marijn, said the text on the phone. That could be something interesting!
By the first words of him I was stunned, did he say Hoopoe? Yes he did, it was located right behind my house on the heath.
While getting some more info from him I packed my telescope, tripod, camera and an other phone to get the message to more birders.
Within 5 minutes I was on the right location but didn't see any birders.
I started scanning the heath but it wasn't working, no bright orange, black and white striped bird was crawling around here...
Then, just as I hang up some fellow birders, I spotted the bird! But it was gone seconds from discovery...
The bird flew to the forest and I couldn't locate it there, tough luck, but it was a Dutch tick for me so I wasn't complaining.
Other birders soon joined the search for the bird but we couldn't relocate it.

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