Huétor Fields, Granada Province, Spain

On the patch again.

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A bit of Snow on the Hill.

Nothing out of the ordinary.

Common Stonechat (Tarabilla Común / Saxicola torquata) female.

Huétor Fields, Granada Province, Spain.

On the Patch and sitting by a Puddle.

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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).

 

Huétor Fields, Granada Province, Spain.

Checking the Curlew Fields.

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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).

 

Huétor Fields, Granada Province, Spain.

A bit more Patch work.

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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).

Huétor Fields, Granada Province, Spain.

A bit bigger loop around the patch.

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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 croceus), Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) and Small White (Pieris rapae).

Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui).

Small White (Pieris rapae).