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2001 [Summer] - Birdwatching in Lower Austria - Mike Millar

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This summer, 2001, my wife and I went for a week`s holiday in Fuschl, about 45 minutes from Salzburg. The village was very nice and we thoroughly enjoyed our week`s holiday. I had hoped that I would be able to get in some good alpine birdwatching but unfortunately this area proved disappointing...

2003 [April] james Hanlon

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At the end of 2002 I searched the internet for a contact in Austria after seeing free flights available (pay only tax) on the Ryanair website. I was lucky enough to be contacted by Robb, a birder based in Ebensee, a town in the Austrian Alps, who was extremely helpful and generous in assisting my companion and me on the weekend in the Alps I subsequently booked. In fact, we had a great time, all got on well and Robb invited us back for the Easter period, to stay with him and his family and to look for the rest of the local specialities that had eluded us on the first visit. This was some task, as during the 48 hours we had in and around Ebensee on the first trip, we had only managed to connect with alpine chough, whilst admiring the breathtaking scenery and freezing in the sub-zero temperatures...

2003 [August] Justin Jansen

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From 1 to 3 August 2003 I undertook a short trip to Switzerland. From the trip a short summary. Without the guiding of my personal Guide (Jan Bisschop) and his site descriptions all this wasn`t possible big thanks to him! Also big thanks to Mathias Ritschard for his help in writing down some sites...

2003 [June] Jeremy Barker & Sandra Göetsch

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This was a summer tour around Austria, cleaning up a few birds that Sandra particularly wanted to see, then a 10-day trip to Croatia, along the coast, returning inland. Effectively no information was available to us before we visited Croatia, so we missed a lot; however for the Austrian sites we visited we are indebted to Graham Tebb & Georg Juen for their help...

2003 [Summer] Kasper Hendriks & Rob van Bemmelen

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July 2003 was the moment for 4 young birders from The Netherlands to do some interesting birding in the eastern part of Europe. The month July is of course not the best time to go birding, because most birds are relatively non-active in summer. But, as all the participants attain some sort of school during the rest of the year, a trip this long in spring was no option. The group departed on Saturday the 28th of June and returned on Sunday the 27th of July 2003...

2004 [May] - Robbin D. Knapp - Northern Austrian Alps

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... On the way back down into the city we saw the first of several Black Redstarts. They are much more common in Austria than Common Redstarts and can be seen in gardens and industrial areas as well as on rocky mountainsides, their original habitat...

2004 [October] - Stephen Burch

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Another business trip, this time to Vienna gave me the chance to visit the famous Vienna Woods, albeit at not the best time of year. All the summer passerines would be long gone, but the resident woodpeckers included potentially 3 lifers for me, as despite many birding trips to Europe, I had never connected with a non-British woodpecker!

2005 - Roberto Lerco

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Il parco piu' famoso della Germania che si estende dal Danubio fino alla Repubblica Ceca e l'Austria. Qui' si trova la piu' grande foresta d'Europa, dove si possono fotografare numerosi animali tra cui il lupo,l'orso,la lince. E' un paradiso per i fotografi naturalisti, in quanto lungo un sentiero di circa 6 Km. si trovano numerosi "gehege" (dal tedesco gehen, andare, muoversi). Il "gehege" e' un territorio molto grande, chiuso, dove gli animali hanno "liberta'" di movimento, potendosi nascondere addirittura a volte per l'intera giornata. Gli uccelli invece sono nelle voliere, anche questi facili da fotografare perche' non ci sono recinti tra loro e le persone...

2005 [May] - Jan Vermeulen

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This report covers a visit to Hungary and Austria from 5 – 15 May 2005. Vital & Riet van Gorp and my girlfriend Willemien van Ginneken accompanied me. Having neglected my Western Palearctic list for the last years I decided to make a visit to Hungary and Austria. In 1986 I visited the well-known Neusiedler See area in eastern Austria...

2008 - Hans Schick - Bodensee

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From 2002 to 2008 I had the opportunity to visit Lake Constance (Bodensee) once a year. I always spent a day in the surroundings of Fußach, where the River Rhine flows into the lake. This area is a well known birding place (Vorarlberger Rheindelta) and has the status of a nature reserve. In addition I visited other interesting sites at the German lake shore as the Peninsula of Mettnau, the Island of Reichenau, Lake Mindelsee or the natur reserves Wolmatinger Ried and Eriskircher Ried. The observations made during the last seven years are summarized in this report...

2008 [May] - Paul Hicks

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...Corn Crake, Grasshopper, Orphean, and Wood Warblers, Black Woodpecker, Treecreeper, Fieldfare, Red-breasted Flycatcher, White-throated Dipper, Yellowhammer, Red Kite, Griffon Vulture and Ptarmigan...

2009 [May] - Stephen Daly

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...Penduline Tit and Bearded Reedling were also present with Great Reed and Reed Warbler. River Warbler was heard at our visit to Marchegg, which is a special place and holds the largest White Stork colony in Austria...

2009 [September] - John Muddeman

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...The chill breeze got through to us though, so we moved on a short distance and walked down to the Warmblutterköppel, which amazingly in autumn, was as high as in the spring! Great White and Little Egrets, a flying Purple Heron, and large numbers of Red-crested plus a few Common Pochard were all novel, but it was the presence of several Pygmy Cormorants, including a small gathering on a little mud island at the end, which stole the show...