Near Huétor Tajar, Granada Province, Spain.

Visible Migration from the Terrace.

Ebird List.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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).