Hi all,
Decided to play with an idea I’d been thinking of for a few years now and finally did it this afternoon: I made a taxonomically-ordered list of all the photo pages on my website. Even went as far as learning a spot of JavaScript to make collapsible trees to not clutter the whole page. I have no idea why I did this, other that it was raining all day and the kids were making too much noise to concentrate on drawing birds.
Also, just out of curiosity, what’s the most common bird that other BA’ers haven’t seen? I’ve got some howling gaps in my list that always seem to evade me, usually accompanied by the phrase “well, they’re normally really reliable here…”
Cheers!
Tony
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My wife is the expert of the family – better eyes?; certainly more hard work on identification
But she still hasn’t forgiven me for seeing the Rock Wren in NZ 20 years ago. My “best” sighting was a Black Falcon at Bundoora many years ago – identified from whatever was the best book in the house at the time when I got home, and confirmed very soon after by Reg Johnson who made a special trip to see it (so did Anthea).
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So far, the ones that seem to escape me are the Double-barred Finch, Banded Lapwing, Rock Warbler and Eastern Barn Owl. There’s probably a whole host of others that I’ve missed enough to forget what they were. Depressingly, my wife has two of those and even my two kids have seen Rock Warbler… There are far more European birds I really should have seen while I was there, but I might get the chance next year. As to limits of bogies, I think of it as being more of a continuous spectrum from mega-bogies to a mere snotty sniffle. Cheers,
Tony
So Tony, how many of these “gap birds” have achieved as bogey status?
I guess that begs the question as to whether a birder can have more than one bogey bird, and if so whether there is an upper limit to the number of bogies a birder can have at any one time …
If you are only allowed to have one bogey, is that a universal thing, or only one bogey per geographical area or season?
Weighty things to ponder …
Regards, Laurie.
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