Goodbye to Santi and Howard in Silos and hello to Red Wines in Rioja !!!!
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We set the Satnav to shortest route avoiding motorways and it did, it took us on some very out of the way but bueatiful roads and on the way I picked up Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Griffon Vultures (Bultre Leonado / Gyps fulvus), Booted Eagle (Aguililla Calzada / Hieraaetus pennatus), Grey Heron (Garza Real / Ardea cinerea), Common Magpie (Urraca / Pica pica), Carrion Crow (Corneja Negra / Corvus corone), Raven (Cuervo / Corvus corax), Northern Wheatear (Collalba Gris / Oenanthe oenanthe), Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs), Pied (Papamoscas Cerrojillo / Ficedula hypoleuca) and Spotted Flycatchers (Papamoscas Gris / Muscicapa striata), White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba), House (Avión Común / Delichon urbica) and Crag Martins (Avión Roquero / Ptyonoprogne rupestris), Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica), Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula), Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto), Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus) and the third Hobby (Alcotán Europeo / Falco subbuteo) of the trip which was sat on dead roadside tree.
We arrived at the hotel, had some lunch and then spent some time wandering around the village.
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Southern / Blue Hawker (Aeshna cyanea). |
On the walk round I picked up Great Cormorant (Cormorán Grande / Phalacrocroax carbo), Common Moorhen (Gallineta Común / Gallinulas chloropus), Eurasian Coot (Focha Común / Fulica atra), Water Rail (Rascón Europeo / Rallus aquaticus), Mallard (Anade Azulón / Anas platyrhynchos), Green (Andarrios Grande / Tringa ochropus) and Common Sandpipers (Andarrios Chico / Actitis hypoleucos), Greenfinch (Verderón Común / Carduelis chloris), Goldfinch (Jilguero / Carduelis carduelis), Cetti's (Ruisenor Bastardo / Cettia cetti) and Garden Warbler (Curruca Mosquitera / Sylvia borin), Common Whitethroat (Curruca Zarcera / Sylvia communis), Tree Pipit (Bisbita Arbóreo / Anthus trivialis), Song Thrush (Zorzal Común / Turdus philomelos), Robin (Petirrojo Europeo / Erithacus rubecula), Dunnock (Acentor Común / Prunella modularis), Common Stonechat (Tarabilla Común / Saxicola torquata) as well as Southern / Blue Hawker (Aeshna cyanea), Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria), Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus) and Long-tailed Blue (Lampides baeticus).
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Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus) immature. |
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