A little further out from the Hotel but the rain continued.
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Cascada de Vada. |
I got up and spent a short while checking the garden finding
Cetti's Warbler (Ruisenor Bastardo / Cettia cetti),
Blackcap (Curruca Capirotada / Sylvia atricailla),
Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Raven (Cuervo / Corvus corax), Red-billed Chough (Chova Piquirroja / Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) x20,
Nightingale (Ruisenor Común / Luscinia megarhynchos), Common Swift (Vencejo Común / Apus apus), Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs), House Martin (Avión Común / Delichon urbica) and Spotted Flycatcher (Papamoscas Gris / Muscicapa striata).![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiny1M4sdROooYjvHALtYSo6c1Zh2nDAC9L2UP8o49hHQWVX0MWVOZf_64CY_ubTryQm3PMVyHnkE6fjpWRalcNCYMZCN7qgscTXmkftalpHjtK2MMc_lvbgfdr_6ktpcBByy2qcyz615k/w640-h520/20th-June-21-3.jpg) |
Mazarine Blue (Cyaniris semiargus). |
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Mazarine Blue (Cyaniris semiargus). |
I drove out in the same direction as I had the day before but the weather was rough so I just kept driving over to Embalse de Reina where I dropped down on to what I guess was the old road before the Embales flooded the area as after a few hundred meters it disappeared into the lake near to where the Rio Elsa entered.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzeyYBlV8syRa70EPHsVEq6kKnoGI6k1XXHdTjlTj_1vluQsa6tCfNixpjuwibtTrTuLUUiBNFKKM7DFQJjJqnuxQkc5IpbQOI9CE1jKKpVAvrxEj36JFkL5eq0qgx2cuI93Xb1MAryPg/w640-h542/20th-June-21-5.jpg) |
Marbled White (Melanargia galathea). |
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Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina). |
I did a several point turn on the track and drove back up towards the road again checking the many bushes and paddocks on the way finding Bonelli's Warbler (Mosquitero Papialbo / Phylloscopus bonelli), Song (Zorzal Común / Turdus philomelos) and
Mistle Thrush (Zorzal Charlo / Turdus viscivorus), Long-tailed (Mito / Aegithalos caudatus) and
Blue Tit (Herrerillo Común / Parus caeruleus), White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba),
Greenfinch (Verderón Común / Carduelis chloris),
Serin (Verdecillo / Serinus serinus),
Robin (Petirrojo Europeo / Erithacus rubecula),
Common Stonechat (Tarabilla Común / Saxicola torquata),
Nightingale and
Corn Bunting (Triguero / Emberiza calandra).
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Adonis Blue (Lysandra bellargus). |
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Small White (Pieris rapae). |
I started to head back East following th Rio Elsa making my next stop on a minor road just to the north of the village of Portilla de la Reina where I did a short walk up a grassy valley but unfortunately the rain came again and I returned to the car but not before I found
Dunnock (Acentor Común / Prunella modularis),
Pyrenean Germander (Teucrium pyrenaicum) and
Burnt Orchid (Neotinea Ustulata).![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMi1QuVRU0-wo0x9V1APhx9WvUDS0ORPGQQbpjbLUaObjo6gRG0Wcr1XF0xw8es5Q-UjOsFJRJMi8BBLqFYlxLCpASYinrJerwkZo_lj5E1tsRGd7nvQQsi6Y6DKHKMMTFJmHZthlIcX4/w640-h562/20th-June-21-9.jpg) |
Large Wall Brown (Lasiommata maera). |
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Large Wall Brown (Lasiommata maera). |
I went just up the road and sat in the car at Mirador Portilla de la Reina while it rained looking out into the Pine woods but only added Wren (Chochin / Troglodytes troglodytes) before I continued on up and over Puerto de San Gloria but as it was still throwing it down and the visability was almost zero I dropped back down the other side and headed back towards the hotel but on the way the sun came out for almost half an hours, so as I got to Zona descanso Puerto san Glorio I stopped for a while.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglGjIEASqRFBNCUWGhwj7gYTBDIdqOz05opyx5tIBwwxSJtrhUgDROTD6JoAcgltXYP9nvcv7vAX20SGnYTEGAdqjjcB6Pr_WlTkz_-zYviPDEF6Tf-r_86aZW5xxpvIpmt37vsgKEr6Y/w640-h506/20th-June-21-15.jpg) |
Pyrenean Germander (Teucrium pyrenaicum). |
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Burnt Orchid (Neotinea Ustulata). |
It was amazing, as soon as the sun came out the butterflies were up and on the wing almost within seconds and I was soon watching Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina), Marbled White (Melanargia galathea),
Small White (
Pieris rapae),
Small Skipper (Thymelicus sylvestris),
Adonis Blue (Lysandra bellargus), Clouded Yellow (Colias corceua) and a butterfly lifer
Glanville Fritillary (Melitaea cinxia) which was a tad tricky to ID but with help fro Ed Mackrill who sorted it.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMeUmsszncBOTS3mVQbSWthrdmCYLPpmeiqB5SA7pzfdVAWjZTPqRcEl-z0yVHgNVaglliv0q3LSzWKp9ddmfBlinqEl3bdFAebpsE2tjcUTYlx4xdrhbaMw3aH_TMNXb-fwsCyQCNYC4/w640-h564/20th-June-21-11.jpg) |
Lizard Species.
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Adonis Blue (Lysandra bellargus). |
Whilst I was looking in this area I also had singles of Short-toed Eagle (Culebrera Europeo / Circaetus gallicus) and both Griffon (Bultre Leonado / Gyps fulvus) and Egyptian Vulture (Alimoche Común / Neophron percnopterus) pass over.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFYA7jIzN7mr2oe4ct4Loks17pNI4IHtyl7uDibd-nr1gRqXDer8jqZC7HyYrx6hyphenhyphenieenKeUNyR4A6KFguTQ78sY7hGVM1UmXA_1Z5DTJcyz5qN7g1gS4Ang8TVXdtB5PFeyS1IiV1oUo/s16000/20th-June-21-16.jpg) |
Bee Orchid (Ophrys apifera). |
After a while things returned to normal and the rain started again so I worked my way back to the car finding
Bee Orchid (Ophrys apifera) on the way before I returned to the Hostal.
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