Back on the patch.
Second Municipal Lockdown Day 11.
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Sierra Nevada in the distance.
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The water level in the Arroyo Vilano had dropped so I crossed at the ford and parked at the normal spot and walked the Arroyo down to the plantation and a little further.
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| Female Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus). |
Again the species were much as they normally are, the
Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax) x31 were on the Lucerne fields along with Grey Heron (Garza Real / Ardea cinerea), female Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus) on a telegraph post. |
| Female Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus). |
Further down the road near the Plantation I got a year tick when 2 Bramblings (Pinzón Real / Fringilla montifringilla) flew up into a Fig tree, the one bird was in stunning plumage but the second more like what I expected at this time of the year.
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| Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax). |
In the same area there was a high flying Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), lots of Iberian Magpies (Rabilargo / Cyanopica cooki), a calling Great Spotted Woodpecker (Pico Picapinos / Dendrocopos major), Hoopoe (Abubilla / Upupa epops) and Grey Wagtail (Lavandera Cascadena / Motacilla cinerea). |
| Iberian Magpie (Rabilargo / Cyanopica cooki). |
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| Iberian Magpie (Rabilargo / Cyanopica cooki). |
On my way back I watched a trio of male Blackbirds (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula) scrapping in the reeds at the side of the road, had a large group of Common Waxbills (Estrilda Ondulada / Estrilda astrild) mixed in with good numbers of Tree Sparrows (Gorrión Molinero / Passer montanus). |
Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula), one of the battling males.
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Down along the Arroyo I had the only Western Cattle Egret (Garcilla Bueyera / Bubulcus ibis) of the walk and a pair of noisy cronking Ravens (Cuervo / Corvus corax).
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| Linnet (Pardillo Común / Carduelis cannabina). |
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