The best sea watching I have had so far in Spain.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBdITsZa1DcEI7zIK_dEfsfwlELLNx-5T47AyYw8yKjQ9h6DaRwCnc0jhZWjDd6xCO0IAZX8qwbtrhCVMrr9RFcX-rK8BQ4Mm4Yj8M9tnTfJB0hp2PRNqM7Q4W7Ifmc4u2r6TJAKC8Fq0/s640/9th+Oct+18-1.jpg) |
Sooty Shearwater (Pardela Sombría / Puffinus griseus). |
Jayne went into the Miramar shopping centre and I went just down the road to the hide on the cliff tops at El Faro where it was blowing a gale which meant the birds were coming past quite close in to shore.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi_7og53amvwjrWs4VNiUecpb61Yfkwnav5U9-4a012pykhSBuJ2rpEelHbKuaHp6VsFNN0ViPGUoxuGnI3XiDKdLa1g5rBdvbxzb8u7cx80yGSmGb4_YcnyBtQqurc1cB7XnI9UMxjSc/s640/9th+Oct+18-2.jpg) |
Sooty Shearwater (Pardela Sombría / Puffinus griseus). |
I sat, tightly squeezed in to the Eastern end of the hide just about staying out of the high winds and during the three hours I was there I managed to see 1x Sooty Shearwater (Pardela Sombría / Puffinus griseus) which was a Spanish Lifer as well as 1500+ Scopoli's / Cory's Shearwater (Pardela Cenicienta / Calonectris diomedea / borealis) and 300+ Balearic Shearwater (Pardela Balear / Puffinus mauretanicus), 1x Pomarine (Págalo Pomarino / Stercorarius pomarinus) and 11x Great Skuas (Págalo Grande / Stercorarius skua), 400+ Northern Gannets (Alcatraz Atlántico / Morus bassanus), 5x Sandwich Terns (Charrán Patinegro / Sterna sandvicensis), 3x Great Cormorant (Cormorán Grande / Phalacrocroax carbo) and all the usual Gulls.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqv0A_Nn18juAoWH7tSao0UYKYUjqzQEFTh4n9rsooHn3CjdBaS96mL3M_bv2owdaRMIpz77ohs6wQnhPYwx3_biC1Sra7oalAX-or6sUIQk5nu5RrkysKt4cd9I_WTheYE9WR5CHaue8/s640/9th+Oct+18-3.jpg) |
Sooty Shearwater (Pardela Sombría / Puffinus griseus). |
Other species seen on the rocks below the hide I also saw Sanderling (Correlimos Tridáctilo / Calidris alba), Kentish Plover (Chorlitejo Patinegro / Charadrius alexandrinus) and a Little Egret (Garceta Común / Egreeta garzetta).
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR1DvJyGMTIqDfLvBBbj8ggA_zLLeCIScDDPZtJSV0bp5oWy4ea3tnCA4OUjyset7B7kG5jn0buSnP0e2cREDp-KpimOIegxuHT7IGPCrov7uEau1DuVRRv5bKsd_GJ_bgT9cA37zqpyY/s640/9th+Oct+18-4.jpg) |
Sooty Shearwater (Pardela Sombría / Puffinus griseus). |
The best sea watching section I have had since arriving in Spain.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_A66W3FVumd1U6ChwFxFtl-0M5AEVMwmY-XpV1uGgAKsWdT83x4gv2J7NKck28IC3Z8B3BexSCHrHDzpLogx5a69o2L-_278jvp55kGmn5r8NPx4tdacMcvGIB61KtClFJJZtOAGHldE/s640/9th+Oct+18-5.jpg) |
Sooty Shearwater (Pardela Sombría / Puffinus griseus). |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlEZLFb_XFtafFXog6950hMFYtCEJWsQdeXDV6-DRNzzWP_qB4Jyajo-YWCi357aQSV4HtyZj4Vd1N31TxAalqRvy3npBQs5U6PQZDrOsUqfIphmSlYY-Bx4NbLte4kj38_uWomPBwEtc/s640/9th+Oct+18-6.jpg) |
Scopoli's / Cory's Shearwater (Pardela Cenicienta / Calonectris diomedea / borealis). |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm73bZ_4c_DUE8aJJ4I12XlNDg19gLEyaI3GxgbuOzzUeHp86qD3sYRP7mxD74GNQhL9rb36URqi1OOkPVDjpeaBq8nLzl7GdVA_FZhekxjQQAXCnYYolP7gLB7ZVjjpNOPvE-2kBfulk/s640/9th+Oct+18-7.jpg) |
Scopoli's / Cory's Shearwater (Pardela Cenicienta / Calonectris diomedea / borealis). |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPx7_EHbMx8YCq1go_HbYd8Cymr304ICzFaTrDTiM99zQcZnpkKKleVlyyO9_vS8obPSW7cSZfNXNSmq2sbuJEXs5Q8cWbHPao5ILt-PdcAPwpTr2-_DVMHRP_LcjzrB18pSMhnFGAClk/s640/9th+Oct+18-8.jpg) |
Scopoli's / Cory's Shearwater (Pardela Cenicienta / Calonectris diomedea / borealis). |
No comments:
Post a Comment