<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Ambershore Birding</title><link>https://ambershorebirding.com/</link><description>A birdwatching log from the Lithuanian coast: the Curonian Lagoon, Ventė Cape, the flooded Nemunas delta and the grey dunes of the spit.</description><language>en</language><item><title>Late August on the spit: the first raptors over the grey dunes</title><link>https://ambershorebirding.com/journal/late-august-on-the-spit/</link><guid>https://ambershorebirding.com/journal/late-august-on-the-spit/</guid><description>Autumn passage starts earlier than it feels: honey buzzards and harriers over the dune ridge, wheatears on the sand, and how the ferry decides the day.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Winter on the ice edge: long-tailed ducks, smew and a frozen lagoon</title><link>https://ambershorebirding.com/journal/winter-ice-edge-and-open-sea/</link><guid>https://ambershorebirding.com/journal/winter-ice-edge-and-open-sea/</guid><description>What a hard January does to the lagoon and the sea off Klaipėda: where the open water goes, what collects along the edge of the ice, and how to watch it.</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Reedbed dawns in the delta: bittern, Savi's warbler and the boat</title><link>https://ambershorebirding.com/journal/reedbed-dawns-by-boat/</link><guid>https://ambershorebirding.com/journal/reedbed-dawns-by-boat/</guid><description>Three summers of early starts in the delta reedbeds: what sings before four in the morning, how far a bittern carries, and why I stopped using the engine.</description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Counting the October finch passage at Ventė Cape</title><link>https://ambershorebirding.com/journal/october-finch-passage-vente-cape/</link><guid>https://ambershorebirding.com/journal/october-finch-passage-vente-cape/</guid><description>How a morning of visible migration is actually counted at the cape: flock size, direction, the three hours that matter, and the totals I no longer trust.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Spring flood in the Nemunas delta: where the water puts the birds</title><link>https://ambershorebirding.com/journal/spring-flood-nemunas-delta/</link><guid>https://ambershorebirding.com/journal/spring-flood-nemunas-delta/</guid><description>What the April flood does to the delta polders, and how to read the edge of the water for cranes, geese, ruff and the first terns of the year.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>