A check on some interesting Orchids.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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View out to Sierra Nevada from the Fields.
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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).
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