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Wednesday 19 July 2023

Jardín Botánico Hoya de Pedraza, Sierra Nevada, Granada Province, Spain.

Another night Moth surveying up in the Sierra Nevada.

I was out side the Botanical Garden early so I spent a while checking on the birds in the Pines opposite, I saw good numbers of Long-tailed (Mito / Aegithalos caudatus), Great (Carbonera Común / Parus major), Crested (Herrerillo Capuchino / Parus cristatus), Coal (Carbonero Garrapinos / Parus ater) and Blue Tits (Herrerillo Común / Parus caeruleus) which all crossed into the Botanical gardens along with Firecrest (Reyezuelo Listado / Regulus ignicapillus) and Bonelli's Warbler (Mosquitero Papialbo / Phylloscopus bonelli).
I also saw 
Common Swift (Vencejo Común / Apus apus), Cirl Bunting (Escribano Soteno / Emberiza cirlus), Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs), Robin (Petirrojo Europeo / Erithacus rubecula), Iberian Marbled White (Melanargia lachesis) and Clouded Yellow (Colias corceua) before going in to the Gardens with the rest of the group and setting up the traps.
Later we had something to eat under the trees near the big lawn before turning on the MV bulbs at the sheet trap where the Public part of the took place.

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