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Saturday 19 November 2022

Huétor Fields, Granada Province, Spain

On the patch again.
Ebird List.

A bit of Snow on the Hill.

Nothing out of the ordinary.
Common Stonechat (Tarabilla Común / Saxicola torquata) female.


Friday 18 November 2022

Huétor Fields, Granada Province, Spain.

On the Patch and sitting by a Puddle.
Ebird List.

Northern Wheatear (Collalba Gris / Oenanthe oenanthe).
I parked and walked out to the plantation and back again and then sat in the car by a puddle formed by a leak in the Irrigation channels.
White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba).
White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba).
White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba).
White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba).
White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba).
White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba).
White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba).
Species seen included Black-winged Kite (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus), Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax), Mistle Thrush (Zorzal Charlo / Turdus viscivorus), Blue-rock Thrush (Roquero Solitario / Monticola solitarius), a latish Northern Wheatear (Collalba Gris / Oenanthe oenanthe), Spanish Sparrow (Gorrión Moruno / Passer hispaniolensis) and Iberian  Magpie (Rabilargo / Cyanopica cooki).
Linnet (Pardillo Común / Carduelis cannabina).
Corn Bunting (Triguero / Emberiza calandra).
Corn Bunting (Triguero / Emberiza calandra).
Meadow Pipit (Bisbita Pratense / Anthus pratensis).
Meadow Pipit (Bisbita Pratense / Anthus pratensis).
Meadow Pipit (Bisbita Pratense / Anthus pratensis).
By the puddle I managed some shots of White Wagtails (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba), Linnet (Pardillo Común / Carduelis cannabina), Meadow Pipit (Bisbita Pratense / Anthus pratensis) and Corn Bunting (Triguero / Emberiza calandra). 
Goldfinches (Jilguero / Carduelis carduelis).

Spanish Sparrow (Gorrión Moruno / Passer hispaniolensis) male.

Mistle Thrush (Zorzal Charlo / Turdus viscivorus).

 

Thursday 17 November 2022

Huétor Fields, Granada Province, Spain.

Checking the Curlew Fields.
Ebird List.


Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax).
I parked in one of the gateways to the fields and scanned the stripes of crops and fallow areas and counted 23 Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax), getting on for 200 Stone Curlews (Alcaraván Común / Burhinus oedicnemus), along with Western Cattle Egret (Garcilla Bueyera / Bubulcus ibis) and Little Owl (Mochuelo Europeo / Athene noctua). 
Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax).
I also did a walk along the Dog S**T Track wher I found that there were actually 26 Little Bustards but most surprising was the number of Black Redstarts (Colirrojo Tizón / Phoenicurus ochruros), at one point I could count 19 all feeding along the field edges.
Black Redstarts (Colirrojo Tizón / Phoenicurus ochruros).
 

Wednesday 16 November 2022

Huétor Fields, Granada Province, Spain.

A bit more Patch work.
Ebird List.

I did the standard walk out to the Plantation and back again picking up Red-legged Partridge (Perdiz Roja / Alectoris rufa), Northern Lapwing (Avefria Europea / Vanellus vanellus), Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Black-winged Kite (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus), Crag Martin (Avión Roquero / Ptyonoprogne rupestris) and Iberian  Magpie (Rabilargo / Cyanopica cooki).

Sunday 13 November 2022

Huétor Fields, Granada Province, Spain.

A bit bigger loop around the patch.
Ebird List.

Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax) some of the 23 birds seen.
I parked at the usual spot and walked to the crossroads and then down to the second bridge on the road to Huétor, then I turned around and too the track to the south of the Arroyo back to the car.
Species seen included Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax), Northern Lapwing (Avefria Europea / Vanellus vanellus), Grey Heron (Garza Real / Ardea cinerea), Western Cattle Egret (Garcilla Bueyera / Bubulcus ibis), Black-winged Kite (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus), Iberian  Magpie (Rabilargo / Cyanopica cooki), Robin (Petirrojo Europeo / Erithacus rubecula), Black Redstart (Colirrojo Tizón / Phoenicurus ochruros), Zitting Cisticola (Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis) as well as Clouded Yellow (Colias corceua), Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) and Small White (Pieris rapae).
Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui).

Small White (Pieris rapae).