Early afternoon on the field and then the evening watch a Harrier Roost with Beatriz, Juan and Chika.
Ebird List for the time at the roost.
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Little Bustard (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax), one of twenty seen during the day. |
I set off early to El Temple where I was going to meet Juan later to check an area which looked good as a raptor roost, I was there several hours early so I spent some time driving and walking the tracks.
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Common / Southern Blue (Polyommatus icarus / celina). |
I entered the site on a track from Chimeneas and parked on the side of the main track and had a walk out across an area of fields on another track where I had good numbers of
Calandra (Calandria / Melanocorypha calandra),
Crested (Cogujada / Galerida cristata) and
Skylark (Alondra Común / Alauda arvensis), Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Iberian Grey Shrike (Alcaudón Real Meridional / Lanius meridionalis),
Common Magpie (Urraca / Pica pica),
Goldfinch (Jilguero / Carduelis carduelis),
Serin (Verdecillo / Serinus serinus),
Common Stonechat (Tarabilla Común / Saxicola torquata), calling but unseen
Great Spotted Cuckoo's (Crialo Europeo / Clamator gladarius) and the first of 16x
Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax).![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_Pv5zbmHuyjsfWQ2p-W2t9t2TYkVU3jthdV4XPS1HMVml75dHt7zxtGl0TeP45ovFZJKcF8cLk3LdjI_tzm-xjvji6xlqTqyZhkU-xRMjyXWkfRP0Da-cMg9yz9VecmHTSK1ctaddYowUJC7z6zPjZFfCNZr_HQpmb7mHKFVeG34A4NmtSlLQDsDL=w640-h564) |
Common / Southern Blue (Polyommatus icarus / celina). |
On the weedy fields there were large numbers of Butterflies, most were Bath Whites (Pontia daplidice) but there were also some Clouded Yellows (Colias corceua),
Small Whites (
Pieris rapae) and a few
Common / Southern Blues (Polyommatus icarus / celina).
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Great Spotted Cuckoo (Crialo Europeo / Clamator gladarius). |
I dropped down into the valley and took to the tracks on the other side towards Ventas de Huelma where I saw the first of several
Great Spotted Cuckoo's after only hearing them earlier, a tractor had run over a good number of
Pine Processionary Moth Caterpillar's (Thaumetopoea pityocampa) and two birds were down on the ground feeding on them giving me some good views.
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Great Spotted Cuckoo (Crialo Europeo / Clamator gladarius). |
In this area I also saw
Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs), Common Chiffchaff (Mosquitero Común / Phylloscopus collybita), Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Linnet (Pardillo Común / Carduelis cannabina), Jackdaw (Grajilla / Corvus monedula),
Great Tit (Carbonera Común / Parus major), Large White (Pieris brassicae) and Rabbits (Conejo / Oryctolagus cuniculus).![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjw7xOvf_WThipPa0rAZsW5-LhWilkScsz6jCARaRFhtc2Un1uI4Pl_8umqrpkirxiCvLhVXSg3hxLLovxALfHKQ-nIL9IPwKThKJ7rZWvt3S79YHa9UNMOUKb1TON7m-vIgMYFKEiey2HTX0ByTbjule6b_x5gD-UC3rsaT6RMiSsWY48RVPnLbNE=w640-h604) |
Great Spotted Cuckoo (Crialo Europeo / Clamator gladarius). |
I went for a drive into Ventas and had a late lunch before going back into El Temple and out to the Oil Pits where I had a Black-winged Kite (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus), Stone Curlew (Alcaraván Común / Burhinus oedicnemus),
White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba),
Meadow Pipit (Bisbita Pratense / Anthus pratensis) and Marsh Harrier (Aguilucho Lagunero Occidental / Circus aeruginosus).
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Great Spotted Cuckoo (Crialo Europeo / Clamator gladarius). |
I moved to the meeting point but I was still early so I scanned the fields there seeing another couple of
Little Bustards which were flushed by a female
Hen Harrier (Aguilucho Pálido / Circus cyaneus),
Red-legged Partridge (Perdiz Roja / Alectoris rufa),
Corn Bunting (Triguero / Emberiza calandra) and a female
Merlin (Esmerejón / Falco columbarius).![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg719ukQJNV3f1pOuwdJFLzZP6oVxBnBOsVsZb7Cjf6Z56hLE3Ncy5c-o51_L1j-i7u-ZcXx0pKSs95bnqEKI763H4gXKz9DDjmoraw_NRPkHupNlomInypz2IkfrIc70oGVkR5QdHh7i2sh8XdKjxgrT60Rspy-8-ElONgKTNxkZEPVrgtZnMPEK1D=w640-h498) |
Little Owl (Mochuelo Europeo / Athene noctua). |
Juan, Beatriz and Chika arrived and we went to the point where we were gong to watch for roosting birds, unfortunately we were looking into the sun for a lot of the time but still managed to see 6 Hen Harriers (3 males and 3 females), 5x Marsh Harriers, 3x Black-winged Kites, a calling Long-eared (Búho Chico / Asio otus) and several Little Owls and just before it was too dark to see anything the female Merlin flew across. For a full list follow the Link in the title.
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Merlin (Esmerejón / Falco columbarius) Female.
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