Moraleda de Zafayona, Granada Province, Spain.

A check on some interesting Orchids.

Fan-lipped Orchid (Anacamptis collina).

I popped down town for a few bits and to have some breakfast with Belen before heading along the Motorway to a spot near to Moraleda where there is a small area of disused Almonds which holds some interesting Orchid species but today the only ones in flower were 8 spikes of Fan-lipped Orchids (Anacamptis collina) and nearby a dozen or so Somber Bee Orchids (Ophrys fusca / foresteri) and a few more Fan-lipped.

Fan-lipped Orchid (Anacamptis collina).

Birds included my first Wryneck (Torcecuello / Jynx torquilla) of the year along with Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus), Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto), White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba), Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor), Goldfinch (Jilguero / Carduelis carduelis), Greenfinch (Verderón Común / Carduelis chloris), Linnet (Pardillo Común / Carduelis cannabina), Serin (Verdecillo / Serinus serinus), Blackcap (Curruca Capirotada / Sylvia atricailla), Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Sylvia melanocephala), Red-rumped Swallow (Golondrina Dáurica / Hirundo daurica), Crested Lark (Cogujada / Galerida cristata), Common Stonechat (Tarabilla Común / Saxicola torquata), Common Magpie (Urraca / Pica pica) and Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula).

Somber Bee Orchid (Ophrys fusca / foresteri).

The only butterfly seen was a single Small White (Pieris rapae).

Later I picked up friends Jan and Linda from their place, La Paz and we went out for a very nice bit of Lunch in Huétor, thanks to you both. 

I returned home and sat for a while letting things settle before going out for a walk around the Lucerne Fields and out to the Railway bridge along the Arroyo, high lights included 4x Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax) including the splendid looking male who obviously thought he looked splendid the way he was strutting around.

View out to Sierra Nevada from the Fields.

Other species included 2x Black-winged Kites (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus), Stone Curlew (Alcaraván Común / Burhinus oedicnemus), Little Ringed Plover (Chorlitejo Chico / Charadrius dubius), Woodchat Shrike (Alcaudón Común / Lanius senator), Iberian  Magpie (Rabilargo / Cyanopica cooki), Spanish Sparrow (Gorrión Moruno / Passer hispaniolensis), a single Hawfinch (Picogordo / Coccotraustes coccotrauetes), 5x Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria), 1x Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas) and 1x Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui).