An unexpected second day on the coast.
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Bluethroat (Pechiazul / Luscinia svecica). |
Suddenly found that we had to make a second visit to the coast but nearer to home this time, so Jayne and I headed for Torre del Mar where I dropped Jayne and went down to Rio Velez for a couple of hours.
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White Stork (Ciguena Blanca / Ciconia ciconia). |
As soon as I arrived I bumped in to John and Jenny Wainwright and did so a couple more times during the morning. We spent some time having a chat by the bridge where we saw a very nice
White Stork (Ciguena Blanca / Ciconia ciconia) which had been hanging around for a while as Steve Powell had seen it a week or so ago, along with
White (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba) and
Grey Wagtail (Lavandera Cascadena / Motacilla cinerea),
Green Sandpiper (Andarrios Grande / Tringa ochropus),
Grey Heron (Garza Real / Ardea cinerea),
Western Cattle (Garcilla Bueyera / Bubulcus ibis) and
Little Egrets (Garceta Común / Egreeta garzetta),
Great Cormorant (Cormorán Grande / Phalacrocroax carbo),
Cetti's Warbler (Ruisenor Bastardo / Cettia cetti),
Mallard (Anade Azulón / Anas platyrhynchos),
Northern Shoveler (Pato Cuchara / Anas clypeata) and the first of a great many
Common Chiffchaffs (Mosquitero Común / Phylloscopus collybita).
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Great Cormorant (Cormorán Grande / Phalacrocroax carbo). |
I then moved on down the river where I bumped in to another member of the Axarquia bird group who's name I can not remember at the moment but he put us on to a couple of
Little Stints (Correlimos Menudo / Calidris minuta) mixed in with a flock of feeding
Sanderling (Correlimos Tridáctilo / Calidris alba) and in the same area there were small numbers of
Black-winged Stilts (Ciguenela Común / Himantopus himantopus) and
Ringed Plovers (Chorlitejo Grande / Charadrius hiaticula).
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Zitting Cisticola (Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis). |
I then went down towards the beach looking for a
Bluethroat (Pechiazul / Luscinia svecica) which he had just seen but could not find any sign, however I did see a couple of
Zitting Cisticola's (Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis), a male
Red Avadavat (Bengali Rojo / Amandava amandava),
Serin (Verdecillo / Serinus serinus),
Blackcap (Curruca Capirotada / Sylvia atricailla),
Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula),
Greenfinch (Verderón Común / Carduelis chloris) and
Meadow Pipit (Bisbita Pratense / Anthus pratensis).
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Mediterranean Gull (Gaviota Cabecinegra / Larus melanocephalus). |
Once I was out on the beach a scan of the sea soon produced a small group of 7
Common Scoters (Negrón Común / Melanitta nigra), several
Black-necked Grebes (Zampullín Cullinegro / Podiceps nigricollis),
Northern Gannet (Alcatraz Atlántico / Morus bassanus),
Lesser Black-backed (Gaviota Sombria / Larus fuscus),
Yellow-legged (Gaviota Patiamarilla / Larus Michahellis),
Mediterranean (Gaviota Cabecinegra / Larus melanocephalus) and
Black-headed Gulls (Gaviota Riedora / Larus ridibundus) and a single
Sandwich Tern (Charrán Patinegro / Sterna sandvicensis). I then scanned the pools and located a single male
Bluethroat that was scuttling around on the margins being harrassed by a
White Wagtail. I moved over to where John and Jenny were standing and they informed me that there were two males there but the second one had shot off to the right.
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Bluethroat (Pechiazul / Luscinia svecica). |
John and Jenny then went back to there car for a bit to eat so I sat quietly on a patch of sand and waited to see if the
Bluethroat would return to where we had just been watching it, with in a couple of minutes it did but flew straight in and landed about half a meter away from where I was sat, nice veiws but too close for the camera. It flicked around for a while and then shot off again only to return a few seconds later and this time nicely in range of the lens. I moved on from here and went back to the car before heading back up the river and parking just beyond the bridge. I walked out to the river and again sat on a patch of gravel and took lots of ahots of the 30 or more
Common Chiffchaff that were feeding in a small tree and amongst the water side plants.
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Common Chiffchaff (Mosquitero Común / Phylloscopus collybita). |
Here I also had a
Common Sandpiper (Andarrios Chico / Actitis hypoleucos),
Snipe (Agachadiza Común / Gallinago gallinago),
Crested Lark (Cogujada / Galerida cristata),
Crag Martin (Avión Roquero / Ptyonoprogne rupestris),
Common Stonechat (Tarabilla Común / Saxicola torquata) and
Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor). After a while I packed up and went and met Jayne, we had some lunch and went for a walk on the beach.
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