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Thursday 9 March 2023

Huétor Fields, Granada Province, Spain.

A good walk around the patch produces 53 species.
Ebird List for Fields.

Golden Plover (Chorlito Dorado Europeo / Pluvialis apricaia) x29.
I parked at the halfway point along the Lucerne fields as I tought the usual end of the track would be muddy after the bit of rain we had over night, however when I got down there It was OK.
Northern Wheatears (Collalba Gris / Oenanthe oenanthe) Left and Right and a Tree Sparrow (Gorrión Molinero / Passer montanus) in the midle and below right.
I reached the pool in the river where the farmer has dammed the Arroyo which I am not sure is really legal but it does form a nice pool and small boggy area.
Northern Wheatear (Collalba Gris / Oenanthe oenanthe) male.
From there I returned to the car passed the Lucerne fields and then I continued on out to the Poplar Plantation and then on to the far end of the normal walk at the end of the track by the Railway bridge.
Stone Curlew (Alcaraván Común / Burhinus oedicnemus).
High lights during the walk were Stone Curlew (Alcaraván Común / Burhinus oedicnemus), Little Bustard (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax), 29x Golden Plovers (Chorlito Dorado Europeo / Pluvialis apricaia), 2x Little Ringed Plovers (Chorlitejo Chico / Charadrius dubius), 2x Common Snipe (Agachadiza Común / Gallinago gallinago), Green Sandpiper (Andarrios Grande / Tringa ochropus), 2x Black-winged Kites (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus), Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Kingfisher (Martin Pescador / Alcedo atthis), Great Spotted Woodpecker (Pico Picapinos / Dendrocopos major), Iberian  Magpie (Rabilargo / Cyanopica cooki), Red-rumped Swallow (Golondrina Dáurica / Hirundo daurica), Dartford Warbler (Curruca Rabilarga / Sylvia undata), Bluethroat (Pechiazul / Luscinia svecica), 4x Northern Wheatears (Collalba Gris / Oenanthe oenanthe), Spanish (Gorrión Moruno / Passer hispaniolensis) and Tree Sparrow (Gorrión Molinero / Passer montanus) and Grey Wagtail (Lavandera Cascadena / Motacilla cinerea). 
Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto).

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