A walk around a drying Fuente.
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Black-winged Stilt (Ciguenela Común / Himantopus himantopus). |
After doing a few bits and pieces in Iznajar and Antequera we went for a walk around Fuente de Piedra. On the pool along the entrance road we found
Greater Flamingo (Flamenco Común / Phoenicopterus roseus),
Black-headed Gull (Gaviota Riedora / Larus ridibundus),
Gull-billed Tern (Pagaza Piconegra / Gelochelidon nilotica),
Eurasian Coot (Focha Común / Fulica atra),
Common Moorhen (Gallineta Común / Gallinulas chloropus),
Black-winged Stilt (Ciguenela Común / Himantopus himantopus),
Avocet (Avoceta Común / Recurvirostra avosetta),
Curlew Sandpiper (Correlimos Zarapitin / Calidris ferruginea),
Dunlin (Correlimos Común / Calidris alpina),
Little Stint (Correlimos Menudo / Calidris minuta),
Ringed Plover (Chorlitejo Grande / Charadrius hiaticula),
Ruff (Combatiente / Philomachus pugnax),
Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica) and
White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba).
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Greater Flamingo (Flamenco Común / Phoenicopterus roseus). |
We parked and walked down to the board walk but there was not a great deal of water and I only found a single
Little Stint,
Yellow Wagtail (Lavandera Boyera / Motacilla flava iberiae),
Zitting Cisticola (Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis),
Reed Warbler (Carricero Común / Acrocephalus scrpaceus) and
Mallard (Anade Azulón / Anas platyrhynchos).
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Greater Flamingo (Flamenco Común / Phoenicopterus roseus). |
Up at the mirador we scanned the main Lagoon and saw
Shelduck (Tarro Blanco / Tadoma tadorna),
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Gaviota Sombria / Larus fuscus),
Jackdaw (Grajilla / Corvus monedula),
Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Sylvia melanocephala),
Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor) and
Cetti's Warbler (Ruisenor Bastardo / Cettia cetti).
Around the back of the centre we checked the pool from the hide and found Common (Porrón Común / Aythya ferina) and Red-crested Pochards (Pato Colorado / Netta rufina), White-headed Duck (Malvasia Cabeciblanca / Oxyura leucocephala), Little Grebe (Zampullín Común / Tachybaptus ruficollis), Little Ringed Plover (Chorlitejo Chico / Charadrius dubius), Cattle Egret (Garcilla Bueyera / Bubulcus ibis) and the two year ticks that I had hoped for Black (Fumarel Común / Chlidonias niger) and Whiskered Terns (Fumarel Cariblanca / Chilidonias hybridus).
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Little Stint (Correlimos Menudo / Calidris minuta). |
We walked back around to the car seeing some spikes of
Yellow Bee Orchid (
Orquídea Abejera / Ophrys lutea) in the car park and on the edge of the roadside pool as we drove out I added
Kentish Plover (Chorlitejo Patinegro / Charadrius alexandrinus),
Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus),
House Martin (Avión Común / Delichon urbica) and
Nightingale (Ruisenor Común / Luscinia megarhynchos).
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Curlew Sandpiper (Correlimos Zarapitin / Calidris ferruginea). |
We headed back to Archidona and had some lunch before went and had a walk in the woods nearby where I found
Cleopatra (Cleopatra / Gonepteryx cleopatra),
Spanish Festoon (Zerynthia rumina),
Pink Butterfly Orchid (Anacamptis papilionacea) and the hybrid
Orchis x gennarii (O. papilionacea x O. champagneuxii).
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Avocet (Avoceta Común / Recurvirostra avosetta). |
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Greater Flamingo (Flamenco Común / Phoenicopterus roseus). |
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Black-winged Stilt (Ciguenela Común / Himantopus himantopus). |
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Orchis x gennarii (O. papilionacea x O. champagneuxii). |
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Pink Butterfly Orchid (Anacamptis papilionacea). |
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