Another meeting with Steve, Elena and Bob.
I headed off down to Zapata to meet up with Steve, Elena and Bob on the Rio Guadalhorce to look for Dragonflies but also to collect my tablet which like a muppet I had left in Steve's car last week. Anyway due to a change of plan I headed of slightly earlier than planned with out Jayne so I went straight to the spot and arrived around 15 minutes before the others. During that 15 minutes I parked at the ford and soon started the day list with Little Egret (Garceta Común / Egreeta garzetta), Grey Heron (Garza Real / Ardea cinerea), Little Ringed Plover (Chorlitejo Chico / Charadrius dubius), Common Sandpiper (Andarrios Chico / Actitis hypoleucos),
Grey Wagtail (Lavandera Cascadena / Motacilla cinerea), a singing Blackcap (Curruca Capirotada / Sylvia atricailla), Common Moorhen (Gallineta Común / Gallinulas chloropus), Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Common Redstart (Colirroja Real / Phoenicurus phoenicurus) which seem to have been noticably common this autumn, Kingfisher (Martin Pescador / Alcedo atthis) and then on the edge of a small pool in a gap in the reeds I saw a small bird feeding. I fully expecting it to be a Cetti's Warbler (Ruisenor Bastardo / Cettia cetti) which are come here, so when I got the bins on it I was surprised and very pleased to see only my second ever Grasshopper Warbler (Buscarla Pintoja / Locustella naevia) in Spain. I watched the bird for a few moments and then a delivery van came at speed, throwing up loads of water flushing the bird and flooding the inside of my car as I did not get the window shut quickly enough. After drying the car dash off a bit (missed most of the wind screen as Jayne pointed the following morning) I relocated the car into a spot and waited to see if the warbler would reappear but it remained elusive.




Photographs from the top: Little Ringed Plover (Chorlitejo Chico / Charadrius dubius), Little Egret (Garceta Común / Egreeta garzetta) x2, Common Moorhen (Gallineta Común / Gallinulas chloropus) and a Lesser Emperor (Anax parthenope).
No comments:
Post a comment