Yes, yes, don't worry. I'm still alive and kicking, just not writing. Due to My Busy Life (MBL) and an Unprecendented Laptop Crash (ULC)I haven't been able to do more than working, some incidental birding and trying to be a father for Kasper. That sounds a lot worse than it really is, but it means no rare birds for me (congratulations on the shrike, everyone...), no truly interesting stories and no contribution from me to the impressive list of rare dutch birds this autumn. The closest I got to fame to some extent was when, two weeks ago, I found a pipit that might very well have been a Blyth's Pipit near Paessens. The call as well as the structure in flight were reasons enough to get very alarmed, but unfortunately the bird disappeared east, never to be seen again.
What else? Well, after a fantastic week on Vlieland (first with Kasper and Karin, and after that a DT3 weekend), which is already so long ago that I can't be bothered looking back, I saw mainly Rough-legged Buzzards (including 2 for my garden list), a Russian Jackdaw, some Caspian Gulls (how I love them!), a putative Siberian Chiffchaff and some hybrids (in the form of gulls and geese). Pictures can stille be found on my website http://pbase.com/martijnbot
I'll do my best to do things that are worth writing about and if so, I'll do my best to write about it.
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