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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

AUGUST 13TH 2012 - GAUCIN Migration Watch

A call from Paul who lives at the other end of the village alerted me of a small passage of Black Kites.

I watched from my terrace from 3pm - 4:30pm  and sure enough I counted 338 Black Kites. They came over in smaller flocks of up 70 birds at a time, they then formed 'kettles' just south of the village and rose to a very great height before drifting off towards the coast.

It was all over by 4:30pm and all I saw after that was a solitary Griffon Vulture.

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