Holland in Mid-Winter Species seen: black woodpecker, short-toed treecreeper, geese (barnacle, white-fronted and bean), shore larks, snow buntings, smew, fieldfare, common buzzards, long-eared owl. Oddie: "Holland really isn't all that far from Britain. You just go through the Channel Tunnel, turn left, and it is about a three-hour drive. I have come here for a long weekend in February, for some classic winter birding." 2. Israel in Winter Species seen: yellow-vented bulbul, Palestine sunbird, Indian house crow, house sparrow and white wagtail, Sinai rosefinch, Lichtenstein's sandgrouse, houbara bustard, saker falcon, kingfisher, swallows, griffon vulture, great white pelican, common crane. Oddie: "It has always rather puzzled me that when it comes to music, Israel is in Europe – they have even won the Eurovision Song Contest! But what about when it comes to birds?" . A letter to Points of View praised the ending of this episode, where the sound and spectacle of thousands of cranes flying in to roost for the night, replaces the usual end credits and music. "Now and again you get something you could not possibly plan for, you couldn't even hope for. I have just arrived here and it was absolutely bucketing down. Literally this very second the clouds have parted, there's a rainbow – isn't that incredible! That is a once in a lifetime experience. I promise you, this is one of the great sights – and sounds – of the bird world. No words, no music, just enjoy it!" 3. Majorca in Spring Species seen: whinchat, redstart, pied flycatcher, woodchat shrike, Sardinian warbler, nightingale, Audouin's gull, blue rock thrush, crag martin, black vulture, Thekla lark, Marmora's warbler, Cory's shearwater, purple swamphen, great reed warbler, moustached warbler, black-winged stilts, bee-eater, cirl bunting. Oddie: "It is spring, and the island (Majorca) is packed with birds. There's residents, birds that come here to breed, but best of all its migration time. The thing I really love about this time of year is that there are so many birds on the move." 4. Poland in The Breeding Season Species seen in Poland: red-backed shrike, corncrake, golden oriole, hawfinch, white stork, aquatic warbler, white-winged black terns, great snipe, flycatchers (pied, spotted, collared and red-breasted). 5. Wales in Midsummer Species seen in Wales: red kite, dipper, nuthatch, redstart, pied flycatcher, wood warbler, little tern, seabird colony, chough, gull colony, house martin, fulmar, Manx shearwater. 6. Cape May, New Jersey, in