A morning in Charca and an Afternoon on the coast.
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Water Rail (Rascón Europeo / Rallus aquaticus). |
Lynn, Jayne, Steve and I all headed down to the Granada Coast to Charca Suarez, once there Jayne and Lynn went for a 17KM walk along the beach and back to the starting point whist Steve and I went into the reserve.
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Water Rail (Rascón Europeo / Rallus aquaticus). |
We started in the new hide where we saw
Green Sandpiper (Andarrios Grande / Tringa ochropus) x2,
Little Ringed Plover (Chorlitejo Chico / Charadrius dubius) x3,
Mallard (Anade Azulón / Anas platyrhynchos),
Common Waxbills (
Estrilda Ondulada / Estrilda astrild), Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto),
Red-rumped (Golondrina Dáurica / Hirudo daurica) and
Barn Swallows (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica),
Common Moorhen (Gallineta Común / Gallinulas chloropus),
Little Stint (Correlimos Menudo / Calidris minuta) x1,
Dunlin (Correlimos Común / Calidris alpina) x1,
Western Swamp-hen (Calamon Común / Porphyrio porphyrio),
Red Avadavat (Bengali Rojo / Amandava amandava),
Water Rail (Rascón Europeo / Rallus aquaticus) and when some of the rather noisy visitors left the hide and looked further around the pool we had
Night Heron (Marinete Común / Nycticorax nycticorax) and
Little Egret (Garceta Común / Egreeta garzetta) which they flushed.
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Common Moorhen (Gallineta Común / Gallinulas chloropus). |
Once the noise had died down and all the visitors and photographers had gone we started to see some birds again and added
Reed (Carricero Común / Acrocephalus scrpaceus) and
Great Reed Warblers (Carricero Tordal / Acrocephalus arundinaceus),
European Bee-eater (Abejaruco Común / Merops apiaster),
House Martin (Avión Común / Delichon urbica),
Black Kite (Milano Negro / Milvus migrans),
Grey Heron (Garza Real / Ardea cinerea),
Turtle Dove (Tórtola Europea / Streptopelia turtur),
Hoopoe (Abubilla / Upupa epops),
Serin (Verdecillo / Serinus serinus),
Goldfinch (Jilguero / Carduelis carduelis),
Kingfisher (Martin Pescador / Alcedo atthis) and a fly through
Squacco Heron (Garcilla Cangrejera / Ardeola ralloides).
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Little Stint (Correlimos Menudo / Calidris minuta). |
On our way around to the main hide we had a couple of
Spotted Flycatchers (Papamoscas Gris / Muscicapa striata) and in the hide
Common Pochard (Porrón Común / Aythya ferina),
Little Grebe (Zampullín Común / Tachybaptus ruficollis),
Western Cattle Egret (Garcilla Bueyera / Bubulcus ibis),
Yellow-legged Gull (Gaviota Patiamarilla / Larus Michahellis),
Eurasian Coot (Focha Común / Fulica atra) along with
Black Percher (Diplacodes lefebvrii),
Scarlet Darter (Crocothemis erythraea),
Lesser (Anax parthenope) and
Blue / Common Emperors (Anax imperator).
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Little Egret (Garceta Común / Egreeta garzetta). |
In the same area we also had
Large Psammodromus (Lagartija colilarga / Psammodromus algirus),
Stripe-necked Terrapins (Mauremys leprosa) and
Perez's Frogs (Rana Común / Pelophylax perezi) before moving on around to the two hides over looking Laguna del Trébol we photographed a
Blue / Common Emperor and saw a teneral
Black Percher,
Mediterranean skipper (Gegenes nostrodamus),
Lang's Short-tailed (Leptotes pirithous),
Long-tailed (Lampides baeticus) and
African Grass Blues (Zizeeia knysna),
Monarch (Danaus plexippus) and
Small White (
Pieris rapae).
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Little Egret (Garceta Común / Egreeta garzetta). |
From the hides on Laguna del Trébol we added just
Red-knobbed Coot (Focha cornuda / Fulca cristata) and
Cetti's Warbler (Ruisenor Bastardo / Cettia cetti).
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Blue / Common Emperors (Anax imperator). |
We did not add any new bird species at the next hide Laguna del Lirio but we did add
Small Red-eyed (Erythromma viridulum) and
Iberian Blue-tail (Ischnura graellsii).
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Mediterranean skipper (Gegenes nostrodamus). |
We moved around to the next hide over looking Laguna del Taraje and found
Spanish (Yellow) Wagtail (Lavandera Boyera / Motacilla flava iberiae),
Black-rumped Waxbill (
Estrilda troglodytes) and another immature Night Heron which was sat in a willow at the side of the hide.
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Large Psammodromus (Lagartija colilarga / Psammodromus algirus). |
We left the reserve and met up with the Girls before going to Salabrena where we had our sandwiches sat on a bench by the beach, later we went on to a coast site where we had the most superb views of upto 4 White-rumped Swifts (Vencejo Cafre / Apus caffer) which were coming in so close to us we could hear the wind in their feathers.
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Western Swamp-hen (Calamon Común / Porphyrio porphyrio). |
We also saw
Common Swift (Vencejo Común / Apus apus),
Raven (Cuervo / Corvus corax),
Red-rumped Swallow,
House Martin,
Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Sylvia melanocephala),
Two-tailed Pasha (Charaxes jasius) and
Swallowtail (Papilio machaon).
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Night Heron (Marinete Común / Nycticorax nycticorax). |
On our way back towards the house we picked up
Greater Short-toed (Culebrera Europeo / Circaetus gallicus) and
Booted Eagles (Aguililla Calzada / Hieraaetus pennatus).
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White-rumped Swift (Vencejo Cafre / Apus caffer). |
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White-rumped Swift (Vencejo Cafre / Apus caffer). |
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Two-tailed Pasha (Charaxes jasius). |
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Two-tailed Pasha (Charaxes jasius). |
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