A look around the Quiet river Mouth at Rio Velez.
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| A view up the river showing all the rubbish in the water. |
I had an hour or so to have a quick look around the Beach areas of the site but things were generally quiet, on and around the beach pool and reed beds I found
Cetti's Warbler (Ruisenor Bastardo / Cettia cetti),
White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba),
House Sparrow (Gorrión Común / Passer domesticus),
Goldfinch (Jilguero / Carduelis carduelis),
Meadow Pipit (Bisbita Pratense / Anthus pratensis),
Common Stonechat (Tarabilla Común / Saxicola torquata),
Red Avadavat (Bengali Rojo / Amandava amandava),
Greenfinch (Verderón Común / Carduelis chloris),
Eurasian Coot (Focha Común / Fulica atra),
Common Moorhen (Gallineta Común / Gallinulas chloropus),
Kingfisher (Martin Pescador / Alcedo atthis),
Great Cormorant (Cormorán Grande / Phalacrocroax carbo),
Serin (Verdecillo / Serinus serinus),
Monk Parakeet (Cotorra Argentina / Myiopsitta monachus),
Common Chiffchaff (Mosquitero Común / Phylloscopus collybita),
Black Redstart (Colirrojo Tizón / Phoenicurus ochruros),
Western Cattle Egret (Garcilla Bueyera / Bubulcus ibis),
Grey Heron (Garza Real / Ardea cinerea),
Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula),
Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto),
Great Tit (Carbonera Común / Parus major),
Blackcap (CurrucaCapirotada / Sylvia atricailla),
Robin (Petirrojo Europeo /Erithacus rubecula),
Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Sylvia melanocephala) and out to sea there were
Northern Gannets (Alcatraz Atlántico / Morus bassanus) and
Mediterranean (Gaviota Cabecinegra / Larus melanocephalus) and
Lesser Black-backed Gulls (Gaviota Sombria / Larus fuscus).
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| Great Cormorant (Cormorán Grande / Phalacrocroax carbo). |
In the same area I had
Lesser Emperor (Anax parthenope),
Blue / Common Emperor (Anax imperator),
Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta),
Red-veined Darter (Sympetrum fonscolombii) and
Scarlet Darter (Crocothemis erythraea). Other species included
African Grass Blue (Zizeeia knysna),
Clouded Yellow (Colias corcea),
Large White (Pieris brassicae),
Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria),
Stripe-less Tree Frog (Hyla meridionalis) and
Stripe-necked Terrapin (Mauremys leprosa).
As we drove home we also saw
Crag Martin (Avión Roquero / Ptyonoprogne rupestris),
Iberian Grey Shrike (Alcaudón Real Meridional / Lanius meridionalis),
Iberian Magpie (Rabilargo / Cyanopica cooki),
Jay (Arrendajo / Garrulus glandarius),
Mistle Thrush (Zorzal Charlo / Turdus viscivorus) and
Corn Bunting (Triguero / Emberiza calandra).
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| Scarlet Darter (Crocothemis erythraea). |
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