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Patch birding is amazing. For the last couple of
years I have spent days and money gallivanting around the country
twitching Irish ticks. Or, bashing the ditches and gardens of Mizen
Head trying to route out Northern Parula Warblers and Semi-Collared
Flycatchers. But those days are gone my friends.
Ive been introduced to patch birding. Not only
does it save money and time and heartache but it also turns up the
odd goodie, like this male American Wigeon last Wednesday.
And while
it wasn’t a life tick or even a county tick it was a patch tick and
a finds tick. I must atomic finding this lovely duck on the patch
along with finding the Great White Egret the week before gave even me
more pleasure than twitching that stunning Dark-eyed junco on Dursey
last June. It just goes to show what can happen a patch is checked
for an hour at least every other day. This is a lot of fun.
I will continue to pishhh myself into a splitting
headache on Mizen and yes I will twitch the next juicy yank that ends
up in Scott's Garden, Patch birding however has been a revelation. I
genuinely cant wait to see what turns up next. And more than anything
else I look forward to those jealous texts messages full of
unrepeatable obscenities from Seppy when I find the next rarity on my
Clonakilty/Inchydoney patch.
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