Off To Catch A Train
August 18th 2013 On my last full day in Vladivostok I went back to Russky Island and found a couple more new birds. One of them popped up on to the top of a bush while I was trying to re-find a shrike (it turned out to be a brown shrike and not a bull-headed shrike as I hoped) and my immediate thought was “reed warbler” but of course there were no reeds anywhere for miles around. It was actually a thick-billed
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