A late start after a late arrival in the early hours.
Sharon, John and Caitlin, Day One.
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Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax). |
We had a steady start to the day as we had not got back to the house until around 02.00 as Sharon, John and Caitlin's flight was delayed into Malaga.
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Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax). |
Anyway after we got sorted we went for a walk down on the fields to ease our selves into a bit of birding, we parked and walked around the Lucerne Fields and out along the Arroyo Vilano as far as the Railway bridge, on our way we saw 18x
Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax), Grey Heron (Garza Real / Ardea cinerea), Western Cattle Egrets (Garcilla Bueyera / Bubulcus ibis), 5x
Short-toed Eagle (Culebrera Europeo / Circaetus gallicus), Black-winged Kite (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus), Melodious Warbler (Zarcero Común / Hippolais polyglotta), Iberian Magpies (Rabilargo / Cyanopica cooki) and
Great Spotted Woodpecker (Pico Picapinos / Dendrocopos major).
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Sage Skipper (Muschampia proto). |
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False Mallow / Mallow Skipper (Carcharodus tripolina / alceae). |
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Long-tailed Blue (Lampides boeticus). |
Along the stretch out amongst the Asparagus fields we picked up
Dartford Warbler (Curruca Rabilarga / Sylvia undata),
Spotted (Papamoscas Gris / Muscicapa striata) and
Pied Flycatcher (Papamoscas Cerrojillo / Ficedula hypoleuca), Whinchat (Tarabilla Nortena / Saxicola rubetra),
Common Whitethroat (Curruca Zarcera / Sylvia communis), Sand Martin (Avión Zapador / Riparia riparia),
Spanish (Yellow) Wagtail (Lavandera Boyera / Motacilla flava iberiae) and
Red-rumped Swallow (Golondrina Dáurica / Hirundo daurica).
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Red-veined Darter (Sympetrum fonscolombii). |
As we came along the Arroyo and back to the car we picked up
Long-tailed Blue (Lampides boeticus) x2, Sage Skipper (Muschampia proto) x1, False Mallow / Mallow Skipper (Carcharodus tripolina / alceae) x1,
Red-veined Darter (Sympetrum fonscolombii) x3, Grey Wagtail (Lavandera Cascadena / Motacilla cinerea), Zitting Cisticola (Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis), Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo) and Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Sylvia melanocephala).
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Short-toed Eagle (Culebrera Europeo / Circaetus gallicus). |
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