Erewhon wrote:
Last Tuesday a moment of happiness, probably a moment of once in a lifetime. In the dune area near Schoorl my retina experienced a hop. Not the hop they make into beer, but a bird called hop. He/She was standing less than 3 meters from me, pecking something in the swampy high grass. By the time my camera was ready, it was a lot further away. With 20x optical zoom, and 20x digital zoom still a vague picture as a memory. Im not really sure if hop is the right english word.
What a fabulous bird! I think it's a "hoopoe" in English, so not far off. I've never seen one- they're such a rarity here they don't make it into most bird guides.
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