Visible Migration from the Terrace.
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Short-toed Eagle (Culebrera Europeo / Circaetus gallicus). |
I was due to go up to Granada this morning to collect some documents but after getting an email from Correo's to tell me that a delivery I was expecting on Thursday was arriving today I stayed home and did some gardening, then sat down on the terrace to see what came passed.
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Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo). |
OK, it's not Tarifa but I had a nice 3 hours watching some passage which included 6x
Short-toed (Culebrera Europeo / Circaetus gallicus) and 2x Booted Eagle (Aguililla Calzada / Hieraaetus pennatus), 2x Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo) and 1x male Montagu's Harrier (Aguilucho Cenizo / Circus pygargus).![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy5cL1Yk6CywPJpty9XX7alG7cfkK_vvlxsUQyI7nxmKS73RO1FwFHgjF9bIfT5HNF_f5s_ekK14BpbX9m_O3g4I3T9OTckpx4j0xiQr8AqkbwFNu50j5r7X6-IM4o4gMkh1MWzNOx7QjLjTb6TA9og-C5q6kn08PdOOJGNw8F7tAifyKO88nHXIz8ZNE/w640-h518/22nd-Aug-23-5.jpg) |
Montagu's Harrier (Aguilucho Cenizo / Circus pygargus). |
After a couple of hours I picked up two birds coming in from the North which instantly looked interesting, as they reached the ridge they turned and through the scope I could see that they were a pair of Cinereous / European Black Vultures (Buitre Negro / Aegypius monachus), a new species for my garden and only my second record for Granada Province.
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Cinereous / European Black Vulture (Buitre Negro / Aegypius monachus). |
Sod's law said that at the moment these birds turned up so did my package, the bell rang so I had to shoot off and get the delivery from a very slow moving person from Correo's and by the time I got back up on the terrace the birds were quite a way up the ridge and almost out of view, typical.
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Cinereous / European Black Vulture (Buitre Negro / Aegypius monachus). |
Other species seen included quite a few
Turtle Doves (Tórtola Europea / Streptopelia turtur),
Woodpigeons (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus),
European Bee-eater (Abejaruco Común / Merops apiaster),
Iberian Magpie (Rabilargo / Cyanopica cooki) and a couple of
Jackdaws (Grajilla / Corvus monedula).
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