El Faro and Guadalhorce river mouth, Malaga Province.

Waders, Gulls and a few other bit.

Ruddy Turnstone (Vuelvepiedras Común / Arenaria interpres).

With a couple of to kill I parked near El Faro lighthouse on the coastal road and walked down to the first part of the built up areas checking the beach and rocks on the way recording lots of Yellow-legged (Gaviota Patiamarilla / Larus Michahellis) and three Audouin's Gulls (Gaviota de Audouin / Larus audouinii) one of which was carrying a white ring with black lettering reading BWAB. 

Ruddy Turnstone (Vuelvepiedras Común / Arenaria interpres).

Also seen were Ruddy Turnstone (Vuelvepiedras Común / Arenaria interpres), Sanderling (Correlimos Tridáctilo / Calidris alba), Northern Gannet (Alcatraz Atlántico / Morus bassanus), Great Cormorant (Cormorán Grande / Phalacrocroax carbo), Black Redstart (Colirrojo Tizón / Phoenicurus ochruros), House Sparrow (Gorrión Común / Passer domesticus), White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba), Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula) and Common Chiffchaff (Mosquitero Común / Phylloscopus collybita),

Audouin's Gull (Gaviota de Audouin / Larus audouinii).

As I walked back in the opposite direction to the hide I added Black-headed (Gaviota Riedora / Larus ridibundus), Lesser Black-backed (Gaviota Sombria / Larus fuscus) and Mediterranean Gulls (Gaviota Cabecinegra / Larus melanocephalus), Ringed Plover (Chorlitejo Grande / Charadrius hiaticula) and Little Egret (Garceta Común / Egreeta garzetta).

Sanderlings (Correlimos Tridáctilo / Calidris alba).

From the hide I had just a single Cory's Shearwater (Pardela Cenicienta / Calonectris diomedea), Sandwich Tern (Charrán Patinegro / Sterna sandvicensis) x3 and a good many more Northern Gannets.

Lesser Black-backed Gull (Gaviota Sombria / Larus fuscus).

My next stop was at the mouth of the Guadalhorce where I started off with Kingfisher (Martin Pescador / Alcedo atthis), Common Moorhen (Gallineta Común / Gallinulas chloropus), masses of Great Cormorants, Monk Parakeet (Cotorra Argentina / Myiopsitta monachus), Grey Heron (Garza Real / Ardea cinerea), Little Egret, a single Eurasian Oystercatcher (Ostrero Euroasiatico / Haematopus ostralegus), 4x Grey Plover (Chorlito Gris / Pluviali squatarola), 18x Sanderlings, 2x Ruddy Turnstone and 25+ Kentish Plover (Chorlitejo Patinegro / Charadrius alexandrinus).

Lesser Black-backed Gull (Gaviota Sombria / Larus fuscus).

I walked inland along the bank where I soon located a couple of rare species in the shape of Andy Patterson and his dog Whiskey and spent the next 3/4 of an hours having a good catch up whilst adding Greenfinch (Verderón Común / Carduelis chloris), Goldfinch (Jilguero / Carduelis carduelis), White Wagtail, Black-headed, Lesser Black-backed, Yellow-legged and Mediterranean Gulls, Eurasian Coot (Focha Común / Fulica atra), Crested Lark (Cogujada / Galerida cristata), Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor), Cetti's Warbler (Ruisenor Bastardo / Cettia cetti), Crag Martin (Avión Roquero / Ptyonoprogne rupestris), Robin (Petirrojo Europeo / Erithacus rubecula), Zitting Cisticola (Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis), Serin (Verdecillo / Serinus serinus), Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Sylvia melanocephala), Penduline Tit (Pájaro Moscón / Remiz pendulinus) heard only, Meadow Pipit (Bisbita Pratense / Anthus pratensis), Jackdaw (Grajilla / Corvus monedula), Common Stonechat (Tarabilla Común / Saxicola torquata), Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus) and Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto). 

Single Eurasian Oystercatcher (Ostrero Euroasiatico / Haematopus ostralegus), 4x Grey Plover (Chorlito Gris / Pluviali squatarola) and a couple of Kentish Plovers (Chorlitejo Patinegro / Charadrius alexandrinus).

The three of us wandered back down to the cars and made our ways home.