Birding and shopping, I know which I am happier doing.
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Hoopoe (Abubilla / Upupa epops). |
I drove down to Guadalhorce and parked by the school before walking straight out to the hide over looking Laguna Grande, on the way I saw and heard
Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto),
House Sparrow (Gorrión Común / Passer domesticus),
Greenfinch (Verderón Común / Carduelis chloris),
Goldfinch (Jilguero / Carduelis carduelis),
House Martin (Avión Común / Delichon urbica),
Zitting Cisticola (Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis), Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula),
Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor),
Sardinian (Curruca Cabecinegra / Sylvia melanocephala),
Reed (Carricero Común / Acrocephalus scrpaceus) and
Cetti's Warbler (Ruisenor Bastardo / Cettia cetti) and
Serin (Verdecillo / Serinus serinus).
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Hoopoe (Abubilla / Upupa epops). |
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Hoopoe (Abubilla / Upupa epops). |
From the hide I soon located the long staying adult winter
Little Gull (Gaviota Enana / Larus minutus) on the island just infront of the hide which also had a group of Sandwich Tern (Charrán Patinegro / Sterna sandvicensis) preening at the oposite end.
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Little Gull (Gaviota Enana / Larus minutus). |
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Little Gull (Gaviota Enana / Larus minutus). |
Also seen out on the lake were
Black-winged Stilt (Ciguenela Común / Himantopus himantopus), Common Redshank (Archibebe Común / Tringa totanus),
Black-headed (Gaviota Riedora / Larus ridibundus),
Audouin's (Gaviota de Audouin / Larus audouinii) and Yellow-legged Gulls (Gaviota Patiamarilla / Larus Michahellis), Mallard (Anade Azulón / Anas platyrhynchos),
Common Pochard (Porrón Común / Aythya ferina),
Shelduck (Tarro Blanco / Tadoma tadorna),
Great Cormorant (Cormorán Grande / Phalacrocroax carbo),
Greater Flamingo (Flamenco Común / Phoenicopterus roseus), Little Egret (Garceta Común / Egreeta garzetta), Squacco Heron (Garcilla Cangrejera / Ardeola ralloides),
Nightingale (Ruisenor Común / Luscinia megarhynchos) and Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica).
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Male Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula). |
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Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) on a Crown Daisy (Chrysanthemum carinatum). |
I walked around to the next hide where I picked up
White-headed Duck (Malvasia Cabeciblanca / Oxyura leucocephala),
Eurasian Coot (Focha Común / Fulica atra),
Common Moorhen (Gallineta Común / Gallinulas chloropus),
Little Grebe (Zampullín Común / Tachybaptus ruficollis), a nice male Common Redstart (Colirroja Real / Phoenicurus phoenicurus) and several Painted Lady's (Vanessa cardui) x11.
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Squacco Heron (Garcilla Cangrejera / Ardeola ralloides) and Little Egret (Garceta Común / Egreeta garzetta). |
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Little Egret (Garceta Común / Egreeta garzetta). |
I walked back around to the Laguna Grande hide but only added
Mediterranean Gull (Gaviota Cabecinegra / Larus melanocephalus) before heading off to the hell that is IKEA and then home.
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