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birding the edge skip to main skip to sidebar birding the edge the main aim of this blog is to report on my field birding activities especially related to field trips and rarity finding twitching about me frédéric jiguet paris ile de france france conservation biologist father wp lister bird ringer life enjoyer view my complete profile 13 02 2013 a new house finch near paris yesterday a male house finch was observed at a bird feeder at champingy sur marne close to paris the species is confirmed by the streaked undertail coverts and the pointed tips of the tail feathers highly suggest it is a first winter male we are in contact with the house holder to ssee if the bird is coming back and if we can try a capture to sample feathers and study isotopes photo by anneli feret posted by frédéric jiguet at 16 35 1 comment 12 06 2012 videos all what i have now since i lost most of my pictures in a hard disk crash those posted here and on my facebook pages are what i have left from my recent trips as weel as these three videos taken with my cell phone a singing male siberian chiffchaff in central paris at jardin des plantes my workplace enjoy the sound a fishing black heron at barragem de poilao on santiago cabo verde and the french red footed booby lake side posted by frédéric jiguet at 12 14 no comments 20 05 2012 trans saharan warblers in normandy just came back from a long week end in normandy where i surveyed my four bbs squares incredibly high numbers of migrant warblers with for 20 point counts of 5mn each 2 singing marsh wrablers never recorded since 2007 4 melodious warblers had a max of one before 6 whitethroats record 1 singing male bonelli s never recorded before even submitted to regional ratification while i also had two singing males wood warbler on the spot where i found one last year also a young lost badger and a lesser spotted woodpeck in my garden birding the hedge one of the two singing marsh w a singing male melodious lovely great to get some very good pics as i lost my previous ones in a hard disk crash young badger lesser spot declined by 80 in the last 20 years in france posted by frédéric jiguet at 16 20 no comments 19 04 2012 cabo verde 2 raso larks so many pics to share after this trip this post will be dedicated to raso lark to display various jizz actions appearances of this rare lark endemic to the tiny island of raso raso is made of rock and grass dry at the end of february lark in action these two pics show how raso moves rocks to look for food some larks are colour ringed within the flocks foraging on the large flat plain these ringed flocks seem quite shy compared to other birds seen elsewhere while most lark were wearing a fresh plumage some displayed some marked moult contrasts as this bird in the tertials face on remembering that birds are the last live dinos posted by frédéric jiguet at 09 40 1 comment 18 04 2012 cabo verde birding the wp edge a long time since i posted any news on the blog have been very busy at work with three students finishing their phd and the launch of a national garden birdwatch see www oiseauxdesjardins fr whatever i finally find time during holidays in normandy to post some pics of a recent trip to cabo verde when i managed to reach the mythic target of 700 species senn in wp 700th was cape verde shearwater but short before 699 white faced storm petrel 698 madeiran storm petrel and 697 raso lark sailing from sao nicolau to raso where we had to sample some petrels odors for a scientific programme we thereafter shifted to the rocky branco where we beached close to the eastern flat peninsula on branco the slope over the beach is the place where to look for flying displaying cape verde madeiran storm petrel oceanodroma castro jabejabe madeiran storm petrel ssp jabejabe this one photographed on raso tick 698 on a small beach at the entrance of the flat peninsula on branco these holes are petrels burrows not crabs at night we spotted a single white faced storm petrel on ground coming to the colony after a few hours spent in the wind with our lights on and off tick 699 raso lark that s birding the edge tick 697 amazing when they return rocks with their bills to search for seeds or insects black heron egretta ardesiaca two were present on santiago barragem de poilhao or something like that the only intermediate egret egretta intermedia present on the barragem difficult to spot the local grey headed kingfisher present everywhere on santiago my second tick on the islands just after iago sparrow red billed tropicbird on santiago and easily seen on raso posted by frédéric jiguet at 13 25 1 comment 14 01 2012 how to get to the house finch present since one week the house finch was seen again today it frequents feeders in garden of a small housing quarter in saint rémy lès chevreuse close to paris in yvelines departement you can reach the city by train rer b4 many stations in the suburb network of paris then you have a 10mn walk the train station is visible on the first street map on the top right go to av guy de coubertin the bird has been observed at feeders at three places corner of av guy de coubertin and rue de la digue n 1 poplars and gardens behind the 5 7 rue blanche n 2 big apple tree inside a large garden of av guy de coubertin n 3 the best site is the apple tree and other trees nearby where the bird stays sings during the day saint rémy lès chevreuse is at 02 03 44e 48 41 57n if you visit please respect all properties and gardens which are private posted by frédéric jiguet at 18 23 no comments 09 01 2012 a house finch near paris merci beaucoup à monique et pascal morin for access to their garden unfortunately we did not manage to capture the bird as we hoped to sample some coverts to analyse their stable isotopes no ring undammage tail and flight feathers posted by frédéric jiguet at 20 59 no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom followers