Lunch with some special birds.
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Alpine Accentor (Acentor Alpino / Prunella collaris). |
Jayne was going to the Trabuco craft groups Christmas lunch so I dropped her off and continued on up my favourite place Sierra de Loja. I drove straight over the area to the furthest point that I intended to visit and started birding there and did not get very far before I started to find some interesting species.
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Alpine Accentor (Acentor Alpino / Prunella collaris). |
I walked up through the rocky Hawthorn covered slopes well beyond the Goat Cave area and soon picked up a single
Ring Ouzel ( Mirlo Capiblanco / Turdus torquatus), a good number of
Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula),
Mistle (Zorzal Charlo / Turdus viscivorus) and
Song Thrushes (Zorzal Común / Turdus philomelos) and whilst I sat eating my lunch a group of 23 or so
Alpine Accentor's (Acentor Alpino / Prunella collaris) flew in to the small gorge just below me and work there way up towards me and gave great views.
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Alpine Accentor (Acentor Alpino / Prunella collaris). |
As I walked back to the car I saw several
Spanish Ibex (Cabra pyreaica hispanica), 100s if not 1000s of
Broad leaved Iris (lirio de invierno / Iris planifolia) and a couple of fresh looking Small Coppers (Lycaena phlaeas).
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Dartford Warbler (Curruca Rabilarga / Sylvia undata). |
I started the drive back down the hill but only made it a short way before I saw the first of at least 3
Fieldfares (Zorzal Real / Turdus pilaris) fly across the road and into a group of Hawthorns. Whilst watching this locally very rare bird I also had views of
Corn Bunting (Triguero / Emberiza calandra),
Thekla Lark (Cogujada Montesina / Galerida theklae),
Meadow Pipit (Bisbita Pratense / Anthus pratensis) and
Rock Buntings (Escribano Montesino / Emberiza cia). I moved on again and before long I was watching another 2
Fieldfares sat on a rock pile below the road and what was possibly the same
Ring Ouzel seen earlier.
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Dartford Warbler (Curruca Rabilarga / Sylvia undata). |
Around the crags nearer the Goat Cave I picked up
Crag Martin (Avión Roquero / Ptyonoprogne rupestris),
Black Wheatear (Collalba Negra / Oenanthe leucura),
Black Redstart (Colirrojo Tizón / Phoenicurus ochruros),
Common Stonechat (Tarabilla Común / Saxicola torquata),
Red-billed Chough (Chova Piquirroja / Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax),
Red-legged Partridge (Perdiz Roja / Alectoris rufa) and
Goldfinch (Jilguero / Carduelis carduelis).
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Dartford Warbler (Curruca Rabilarga / Sylvia undata). |
Past the pools at Charca Negro I added
Greenfinch (Verderón Común / Carduelis chloris),
White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba) and further down there was a male
Blue-rock Thrush (Roquero Solitario / Monticola solitarius),
Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor),
Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus),
Little Gull (Gaviota Enana / Larus minutus) and a very confiding
Dartford Warbler (Curruca Rabilarga / Sylvia undata) which gave me great views and sat nicely for the camera.
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Firecrest (Reyezuelo Listado / Regulus ignicapillus). |
Right at the bottom of the hill amongst the Oaks and Pines I found
Coal (Carbonero Garrapinos / Parus ater),
Crested (Herrerillo Capuchino / Parus cristatus),
Great (Carbonera Común / Parus major) and
Blue Tits (Herrerillo Común / Parus caeruleus), and
Common Crossbill (Piquituerto Común / Loxia curvirostra) and
Firecrest (Reyezuelo Listado / Regulus ignicapillus).
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Coal Tit (Carbonero Garrapinos / Parus ater). |
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