What weird species combinations have you seen, with two species seen at the same time, in the same field of view of your binoculars or telescope?
I'll start the ball rolling with:
Black Lark (deserts of Central Asia) &
Manx Shearwater (the open Atlantic Ocean)
in the same field of view at South Stack, Anglesey, today.
Also got Black Lark and Red-billed Chough in the same field of view, but as R-bC also occur in Central Asia, that isn't so weird in reality
Michael
Not weird, but I always think back to 3 Painted Buntings and a Blackburnian Warbler near Corpus Christi a few years ago . I suppose the weird thing was that they were all on a lawn. That's Texas for you.
Not quite the same at Druridge Bay, although I saw Little Gull and Black Tailed Godwit in the same view on Sunday. Not the same though, is it?!
Michael,
These are not "wierd" and not rare as such although one is on its way to becoming difficult to see for a year tick. My submission is a threesome which will really grip off Harry H. They are all three of the Woodpeckers, Great Spotted, Lesser Spotted and Green, all on the same tree opposite my house about 10 years ago. Although not strictly in the same binnie view as my house is quite close to the trees I had to move the binnies up and down the trunk (Corsican Pine). Alas, the Lesser is not seen around here now, the Green is still within earshot on a local hill and the Greater puts in an appearance now and again. Generally I believe that the Lesser is in national decline and in another part of Gloucestershire, the Forest of Dean, one of the RSPB wardens tells me they are very thin on the ground.
Colin