Last month, I spent a week in Basel. I did a little birding, seeing Dipper, Black Woodpecker, a male Golden Oriole, and a pair of Ruddy Shelduck with no less than 10 goslings, but my main target was my lifer Reverdin's Blue. A local had given me some good tips so I walked over the border to a nice little nature reserve just inside Germany. At first, there didn't seem to be any blues whatsoever but I did manage to find a couple of males, although I wasn't at all sure at the time since they seemed to be lacking the silver-centred black spots typical of this genus.
