A few new birds for the year in the rain.
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Wood Sandpiper (Andarrios Bastardo / Tringa glareola). |
After getting an Email to say the delivery I was expecting was going to be delayed I decided to go over to Fuente de Piedra after Jenny and John Wainwright told me they had a
Lesser Flamingo (Flamenco Enano / Phoenicopterus minor) a few days earlier.
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Wood Sandpiper (Andarrios Bastardo / Tringa glareola). |
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Wood Sandpiper (Andarrios Bastardo / Tringa glareola). |
I arrived and checked the Roadside pool on the way in finding a
Wood Sandpiper (Andarrios Bastardo / Tringa glareola),
Black-winged Stilt (Ciguenela Común / Himantopus himantopus), Avocet (Avoceta Común / Recurvirostra avosetta),
Mallard (Anade Azulón / Anas platyrhynchos),
Northern Shoveler (Pato Cuchara / Anas clypeata), Eurasian Teal (Cerceta Común / Anas crecca),
Eurasian Coot (Focha Común / Fulica atra),
Common Moorhen (Gallineta Común / Gallinulas chloropus),
Black-headed Gull (Gaviota Riedora / Larus ridibundus),
Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica), several
White Storks (Ciguena Blanca / Ciconia ciconia) and
Greater Flamingo's (Flamenco Común / Phoenicopterus roseus).![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9qH09MrewC_TxoRzvmHTFW9YhA6vzUGbwx-wOz6zmoMB_X_cnPj52jmSlOK8RzLmHCwIZyHH8OF-OWkvgbFkgGVlBoNL9gGoW9bhhpU2Wszhr_iwukin2p90FYtJeuYGznqkydqEmTzVjEfCWwD09678FOpLOxOp7K2sAE491Ok8DQiwOa3MB2s29/w640-h490/31st-March-22-3.jpg) |
Purple Heron (Garza Imperial / Ardea purpurea). |
I parked and walked out to the Mirador below the Oak tree where the wind was rather strong making scanning the distant flock of Greater Flamingo's hard going, I could not find any of the Lesser Flamingo's in the nearby birds so I went around to the hides over looking the fresh water pools where I added Red-crested (Pato Colorado / Netta rufina) and
Common Pochard (Porrón Común / Aythya ferina),
White-headed Duck (Malvasia Cabeciblanca / Oxyura leucocephala),
Gadwall (Anade Friso / Anas strepera),
Little Grebe (Zampullín Común / Tachybaptus ruficollis), House (Avión Común / Delichon urbica) and
Sand Martins (Avión Zapador / Riparia riparia), 2x
Raven (Cuervo / Corvus corax) which were sat on a Pylon and on the fields between the hide and the water lots of
Rabbits (Conejo / Oryctolagus cuniculus).
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Greater Flamingo (Flamenco Común / Phoenicopterus roseus). |
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Greater Flamingo (Flamenco Común / Phoenicopterus roseus). |
As I sat down in the second smaller hide a Purple Heron (Garza Imperial / Ardea purpurea) flew in and landed in the reeds at the back of the pool and in the nearer reeds a Sedge Warbler (Carricerin Común / Acrocephalus schoenobaenus) was singing loudly.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcoSipWE9_ewBkdYk0hn-dJaMhsbHNwc482APS_DY8soX7uzhsGYbj04ZV07ycXMh9UP9sn03KdAj6oViHfoAz3Cg8BNY4B_aWhA4ZgL00xEuh4M9gEJyTrn912UrDpU1oQui-QFV8mIa6TXi5fsOHXbJAgxLqHboCGPVX_nOfOiEOK_PCm170t2oJ/w640-h472/31st-March-22-7.jpg) |
Water Pipit (Bisbita Alpino / Anthus spinoletta). |
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Water Pipit (Bisbita Alpino / Anthus spinoletta). |
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Water Pipit (Bisbita Alpino / Anthus spinoletta). |
I returned to the Mirador and again scanned the main Lagoon finding Gull-billed Terns (Pagaza Piconegra / Gelochelidon nilotica), Lesser Black-backed Gull (Gaviota Sombria / Larus fuscus),
Dunlin (Correlimos Común / Calidris alpina),
Little Egret (Garceta Común / Egreeta garzetta) and just as friend and fellow guide Bob Buckler and his party of American Biirders arrived I found a very distant Lesser Flamingo in amongst a large group of displaying Greater Flamingo's.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP9UKz5hzFx5U7Q6zwXqLIaqVoAPTimKotGihRrn3iuZEopu3AbhDPbyduP46pHEsTX-3SYGwrmnUn6dUh2bPTwGiah4vLi1bwFmHiWKruS8fBa7aIy1_BYW4UqzdRO1jDughwl0WZjLsoyba-pmEiHChTO8GGZj5ceuRCnvJgvlF0xTyBFhH0082o/w640-h452/31st-March-22-1.jpg) |
Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica). |
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Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica). |
Bob and his group went around to the fresh water pools and I dropped down to the lower track and walked to the Boardwalk pool adding Nightingale (Ruisenor Común / Luscinia megarhynchos), Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Sylvia melanocephala),
Jackdaw (Grajilla / Corvus monedula),
Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula),
Goldfinch (Jilguero / Carduelis carduelis),
House Sparrow (Gorrión Común / Passer domesticus),
Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus) and
Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor).
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Marbled Duck (Marmaronetta angustirostris). |
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Avocet (Avoceta Común / Recurvirostra avosetta). |
At this point the rain started so I headed back to the car and again parked along side the pool on the road in where I tried to get some shots of the
Wood Sandpiper but the light was awful so they are not great.
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Montagu's Harrier (Aguilucho Cenizo / Circus pygargus) male.
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Other species seen here were
Water Pipit (Bisbita Alpino / Anthus spinoletta),
Spanish (Yellow) (Lavandera Boyera / Motacilla flava iberiae) and
White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba),
Snipe (Agachadiza Común / Gallinago gallinago),
Serin (Verdecillo / Serinus serinus) and a pair of smart
Marbled Ducks (Marmaronetta angustirostris).![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZWIw5qu96MEFF3N8lWzY_Nlw1Jb3VIYvMFKzEYTp-VpREXIfjcybvBiGQ0RQElWb8FPoVa_2eqimX0P31LL4uWrane4QbreF3Pq1O1dv24IYVJVemAQLbed3bnmq-FM9uSmLNof_bwx5po-6lZ4Yi6DVnzQDOKqN2lC5COWUi9ZOD4xnbGZQ6f5_s/w640-h520/31st-March-22-15.jpg) |
Woodchat Shrike (Alcaudón Común / Lanius senator). |
The rain just kept getting heavier so I headed off to Villanueva del Trabuco where I had a very late breakfast and a couple of coffee's whilst I waited for the Craft Group Ladies to arrive, Jayne used to come to these meetings so I took some of her material and bits over to see if they could be used by them.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihgjZPXrfXI5rE4ufg6XojQe5UtWucil-BT0C0SDNtRF6Pz2IAPgWV1EPxX2DZ0YZ9U4ZRFI1-9wNiAEfTjUQiRJBqHDiQSfjQACENgxVsjAKotvDUID9BaiBDcIOfvaRpcczotu76tXWtmY1GDpWPXQkz8ISSicA560vPqaS_9iE6d4S8ipTIqhAb/w640-h496/31st-March-22-16.jpg) |
Corn Bunting (Triguero / Emberiza calandra). |
Later I headed back home via a spot near Loja where I saw 7+ Montagu's Harriers (Aguilucho Cenizo / Circus pygargus) at a regular spot and when I reached Huétor I did a walk around the patch, highlights were 3 Marsh Harriers (Aguilucho Lagunero Occidental / Circus aeruginosus) 1 male and 2 females, a single Black Kite (Milano Negro / Milvus migrans), a good passage of
Sand Martins with 60+ birds over the Lucerne fields as well as singles of
Clouded Yellow (Colias corceua),
Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui),
Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) and
Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria).
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