Hi Tweets:

I recently got back from a 3 week birding trip in France and wanted to
share some information with you. I had made contact with a person on
the Birding Pal website named Jean-Louis Verrier. He is an avid birder
and a member of "Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux" (League for the
Protection of Birds in France). Jean-Louis is actually an agronomist
and works in the Bergerac Institute of Tobacco. I was in south central
France, in the Dordogne river valley when I met up with him to go
birding. He took me to a conservation area and there were lots of fun
birds to see. He knew all the bird songs, migration patterns, and
habitats of the birds we saw. Afterwards he took me to his home in
Bergerac and his wife made lunch for us on the patio. His English is
quite good.

He was very happy to bird with me and asked me to tell Tweeters that he
would be happy to meet with anyone who wishes to bird in France. He
said that France is under birded, and he is impressed by anyone who
would travel to another country to see their birds. I had put together
a wonderful itinerary of birding spots (Jean-Louis complemented me on
all the spots I had on it), including the Camargue, which is a
well-known, if not a very famous birding site in all of Europe.
Flamingos nest there and I was actually riding one of the famous white
horses of the region along the Mediterranean coast and marshes and was
watching them through my binoculars. If anyone is interested in my
itinerary or any of the birds I saw, please contact me.

Highlights of the most fun birds I saw was the Green Woodpecker,
Griffith's Vulture, Stork, Little Egret, Common Pochard, and Moorhen.

Franny Drobny
Seattle, Washington
fdrobny at cairncross.com



































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