La Briere

[john robinson]

A friend of mine is going there in two weeks. Any help on the towns to head for or other advice would be great and appreciated. I have been there myself some years back but can't remember place names. Also any links to trip reports would be good.
Cheers
John Robinson

[Joe stockwell]

i went last year, i stayed just outside le pouldou had lots of species of crake, bluethroat savis wabler, moustached, and aquatic plus reports of night heron and purple in the same place

ortolan buntings, melodious wabler, bonnelis warbler, black kite, and much more stuff that we dont get here +fan tailed warbler and bee eater

also i went in 2003 and saw desert wheater so even the really good stuff shows up

[Joe stockwell]

right i can add a little more now including good places to visit as i was on my way to work earlier

the best place that i visited was here (http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=le+pouldu&countryCode=FR#map=47.75885,-3.5075|15|32&loc=FR:47.75443:-3.51072:15|le%20pouldu|)

this was where i saw 3 species of crake in 25 minutes, savis warbler, melodious warbler, aquatic warbler+ pec sand, greenshank and spotted sand but being a family holiday i was only aloud an hour there so if you spend the day there i think there is much more to be had

the second place was here (http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=le+pouldu&countryCode=FR#map=47.82177,-3.64973|15|32&loc=FR:47.82209:-3.652:15|le%20pouldu|)
same sort of species really except marsh harriers and bea eaters have been seen

and the last place was here (http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=le+pouldu&countryCode=FR#map=47.79987,-3.71942|16|32&loc=FR:47.79806:-3.71863:16|le%20pouldu|)

this held loads of different warblers including fan tailed bonelis and dartford, larks and pipits plus the desert wheater in 2003 best thing to do is walk up from kerfanay beach and follow the cliff

hope fully this is of some help
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Joe

[john robinson]

Joe Thanks - but there seems to be problem. I can't open your maps, and as far as i can see le Pouldu is no where near La Briere! Its about 80 K away.
Confused
John

[Joe stockwell]

sorry john, an error on my part i took a day trip to la briere so its me confused not you:puzzled:

i was on the the other side of lorrient but i would think that bird wise it should be the same

as for the maps i dont know whats wrong there as they work on my machine