Sat.Jul 27, 2024

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A Nice Walk in the Woods

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As I have written before on this site, I consider even a bad day birding to still be a great walk in the woods. And this Monday was not a spectacular birding day. I had stayed up too late on Sunday night doing church accounting, so I got a late start on Monday morning. (The fact that Mexico recently abandoned daylight saving time has made this problem more serious.

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Vineyards near Koblenz

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After having explored some vineyards above the village of Rüdesheim am Rhein recently, I decided to go birding in a similar area closer to Bonn. I read that the area around Leutesdorf, just north of the city of Koblenz, is a good spot for Rock Bunting , still my main quarry in the area. Although the weather didn’t look too rosy it’s an easy journey by train from Bonn, so I decided to pay the area a morning visit knowing that I could pop into the train back if the weather became too g