A quick whizz around the local patch.
Whilst Jayne was doing some baking I decided to go and have a quick look around the fields just down the road and see what was about. I started on the fields just behind the bar near our house and spent quite a while sat there just scanning the pylons and the tree tops looking for one of the two wintering Black-winged Kites (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus) but with out any success, I did however see a couple of Common Buzzards
(Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo) one of which has been around for a while and is almost black, Common Kestrel
(Cernicalo Vulga / Falco tinnunculus), Sparrowhawk (Gavilán Común / Accipiter nisus) and a Little Owl (Mochuelo Europeo / Athene noctua) which was perched up on the roof of a nearby disused Cortijo.
Down on the fields and along the river there were plenty of passerines including loads of White Wagtails (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba), Meadow Pipits (Bistita Común / Anthus pratensis), Tree Sparrow (Gorrión Molinero / Passer Montanus), Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor), Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto), Crested Lark (Cogujada Común / Galerida cristata), a cracking male Black Redstart (Colirrojo Tizón / Phoenicurus ochruros) and on the wires which cross the whole area there must have been around 400 Woodpigeons (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus) which had come up off the fields when a couple of female Hen Harrier (Aguilucho Pálido / Circus cyaneus) started to quarter the fields. I then dropped down towards the town on the back road and parked on the railway bridge which gave me a nice elevated view of the site, from here I picked out around 150 Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax) on a nearby Lucerne field, a dozen or so Stone Curlews (Alcaraván Común / Burhinus oedicnemus) which were lying low in some deep furrows and a single Hoopoe (Abubilla / Upupa epops) which flew along the railway line.
I then move back to my original spot and had one last scan and added Great Tit (Carbonero Común / Parus major), Goldfinch (Jilguero / Carduelis carduelis), Greenfinch (Verderón Común / Carduelis chloris), a single Grey Heron (Garza Real / Ardea cinerea) which dropped into a near by ditch and started to pick off what looked like young Iberian Water Frog (Rana Común / Rana Perezi), Skylark (Alondra Común / Alauda arvensis), Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs), Cetti’s Warbler (Ruisenor Bastardo / Cettia cetti) and Robin (Petirrrojo / Erithacus rubecula). On the way back up to the house I had a good few minutes watching and trying to count a flock of Iberian Magpie (Rabilargo / Cyanopica cooki) that were moving quickly through the Olive trees near the house, by the time I had finished I guessed that there were around 125 birds in this single group.
Down on the fields and along the river there were plenty of passerines including loads of White Wagtails (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba), Meadow Pipits (Bistita Común / Anthus pratensis), Tree Sparrow (Gorrión Molinero / Passer Montanus), Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor), Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto), Crested Lark (Cogujada Común / Galerida cristata), a cracking male Black Redstart (Colirrojo Tizón / Phoenicurus ochruros) and on the wires which cross the whole area there must have been around 400 Woodpigeons (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus) which had come up off the fields when a couple of female Hen Harrier (Aguilucho Pálido / Circus cyaneus) started to quarter the fields. I then dropped down towards the town on the back road and parked on the railway bridge which gave me a nice elevated view of the site, from here I picked out around 150 Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax) on a nearby Lucerne field, a dozen or so Stone Curlews (Alcaraván Común / Burhinus oedicnemus) which were lying low in some deep furrows and a single Hoopoe (Abubilla / Upupa epops) which flew along the railway line.
I then move back to my original spot and had one last scan and added Great Tit (Carbonero Común / Parus major), Goldfinch (Jilguero / Carduelis carduelis), Greenfinch (Verderón Común / Carduelis chloris), a single Grey Heron (Garza Real / Ardea cinerea) which dropped into a near by ditch and started to pick off what looked like young Iberian Water Frog (Rana Común / Rana Perezi), Skylark (Alondra Común / Alauda arvensis), Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs), Cetti’s Warbler (Ruisenor Bastardo / Cettia cetti) and Robin (Petirrrojo / Erithacus rubecula). On the way back up to the house I had a good few minutes watching and trying to count a flock of Iberian Magpie (Rabilargo / Cyanopica cooki) that were moving quickly through the Olive trees near the house, by the time I had finished I guessed that there were around 125 birds in this single group.
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