A day looking for the rare Iberian Lynx and what a day !!!
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Iberian Lynx (lince iberico/ Lynx pardina). |
Steve and I were out just on dawn and drove out to the site where we were going to look for the Iberian Lynx (lince iberico/ Lynx pardina), on the way we picked up Red Deer (Ciervo común / Cervus elaphus) in the headlights as well as Rabbit (Conejo / Oryctolagus cuniculus).
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Iberian Lynx (lince iberico/ Lynx pardina) checking the scent on the bush. |
Once we were on site at around 08:45 we set our selves up and started to find new species including
Firecrest (Reyezuelo Listado / Regulus ignicapillus),
Long-tailed (Mito / Aegithalos caudatus),
Great (Carbonera Común / Parus major) and
Blue Tits (Herrerillo Común / Parus caeruleus),
Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs),
Robin (Petirrojo Europeo / Erithacus rubecula),
Iberian Magpie (Rabilargo / Cyanopica cooki) and
Common Magpies (Urraca / Pica pica),
Red-legged Partridge (Perdiz Roja / Alectoris rufa),
Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula),
Sardinian (Curruca Cabecinegra / Sylvia melanocephala) and
Dartford Warbler (Curruca Rabilarga / Sylvia undata),
Iberian Green Woodpecker (Pito Real / Picus sharpei),
Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus),
Blue-rock (Roquero Solitario / Monticola solitarius) and
Song Thrush (Zorzal Común / Turdus philomelos).
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Steve (AKA Kermit) photographing the Crag Martins. |
Just before 10:00 Steve had walked a couple of hundred meters along the road and I walked back a short way in the opposite direction to check a raucous group of
Common Magpies when I picked up a male
Lynx moving along a nearby ridge.
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Red-legged Partridge (Perdiz Roja / Alectoris rufa). |
I managed to get Steve's attention and then went to look for it again and made sure another group got onto it as well, I rushed back to the car grabbed my camera and locked it before returning to the rest of the group.
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Fallow Deer (Gamo común / Dama dama). |
What happened next was fantastic, the
Lynx dropped out of sight over the ridge and then reappeared right next to us, no more than 10-15 meters away and walked past us up the hill, under the road and out onto a clear area above us where it checked a bush for scent for a few minutes, right out in the open before moving off into cover up the hill.
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Río Jándula Dam. |
The whole experience was amazing and all 8 of us were over the moon with the views this stunning animal allowed us.
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Otter (Nutria / Lutra lutra). |
After a while we decided to go down to the dam at the far end of the track but we did not see much apart from lots of
Crag Martins (Avión Roquero / Ptyonoprogne rupestris) sat on the dam wall.
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Otter (Nutria / Lutra lutra). |
Later we drove off the site seeing
Fallow Deer (Gamo común / Dama dama) on the way and down to the Río Jándula where we ate a sandwich (a bit of a monster) we had got on the way at the picnic area near the road and added
Nuthatch (Trepador Azul / Sitta europaea),
Common Chiffchaff (Mosquitero Común / Phylloscopus collybita),
Blackcap (Curruca Capirotada / Sylvia atricailla),
Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor),
White (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba) and
Grey Wagtails (Lavandera Cascadena / Motacilla cinerea) and
Grey Heron (Garza Real / Ardea cinerea).
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Otter (Nutria / Lutra lutra). |
After finishing the Pork monster we drove to the dam and spent some time on the bridge nearby where we had great views of a very smart
Otter (Nutria / Lutra lutra) along with both
European Black (Buitre Negro / Aegypius monachus) and
Griffon Vulture (Bultre Leonado / Gyps fulvus), a pair of soaring
Spanish Imperial Eagles (Aguila Imperial Ibérica / Aguila adalberti) and a couple of
Hawfinches (Picogordo / Coccotraustes coccotrauetes).
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Río Jándula. |
Around mid afternoon we decided to drive south and back home but not before we found a rather hairy looking
Wild Boar (Jabalí / Felis silvestris) near the bridge.
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Wild Boar (Jabalí / Felis silvestris). |
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