No sign of the Cream-coloured Coursers.
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| Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo) sat on a Rabbit. |
I dropped Jayne in the Sierra Nevada Shopping center and then went out to the site for the
Cream-coloured Coursers (corredor Sahariano / Cursorius cursor) but after just over 3 hour searching I had not found them.
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| Tawny Pipit (Bisbita campestre / Anthus campestris). |
All the young birds were now flying so they may well still be in the area but lying low.
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| Hoopoe (Abubilla / Upupa epops). |
I did however see
Black-bellied Sandgrouse (Ganga Ortega / Pterocles orientalis),
Tawny Pipit (Bisbita campestre / Anthus campestris),
Crested (Cogujada / Galerida cristata) and
Greater Short-toed Larks (Terrera Común / Calandrella brachydactyla),
Woodchat (Alcaudón Común / Lanius senator) and
Iberian Grey Shrike (Alcaudón Real Meridional / Lanius meridionalis),
Booted Eagle (
Aguila Calzada / Aquila penntuas),
Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo),
Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica),
Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus),
Hoopoe (Abubilla / Upupa epops), immature
Black-eared Wheatear (Collalba Rubia / Oenanthe hispanica),
Common Magpie (Urraca / Pica pica),
Goldfinch (Jilguero / Carduelis carduelis),
Serin (Verdecillo / Serinus serinus),
Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor),
House Sparrow (Gorrión Común / Passer domesticus),
Collared (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto) and
Turtle Dove (Tórtola Europea / Streptopelia turtur) and
Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula) as well as several
Scarce (Chupaleches / Iphiclides podalirius feisthameli) and
Common Swallowtail (Papilio machaon),
Bath White (Pontia daplidice) and
Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui).
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| Hoopoe (Abubilla / Upupa epops). |
I then went and met Jayne in the Shopping center where we had a very
nice Italian meal before continuing the shopping and the heading home.
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| Hoopoe (Abubilla / Upupa epops). |
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| Hoopoe (Abubilla / Upupa epops). |
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| Hoopoe (Abubilla / Upupa epops). |
