Travelling North to Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos Province, Spain.

Off North to spend a few days with good Friend Santi.

Art work on the side of the house.

I was off at just before 06:00 and arrived at Santi's at 13:35 which considering half of the journey with made more difficult by some very thick Fog and even harder by drivers who can't be bothered to put any lights on let along switch on their fog lights.

Anyway once I cleared the fog near Madrid I dd see Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Red Kite (Milano Real / Milvus milvus), Griffon Vulture (Bultre Leonado / Gyps fulvus), Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Common Magpie (Urraca / Pica pica), Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor), Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus), Feral Pigeon (Paloma Bravía / Columba livia), Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto), Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula), Jackdaw (Grajilla / Corvus monedula), Carrion Crow (Corneja Negra / Corvus corone) and Rabbits (Conejo / Oryctolagus cuniculus).

and again.

I made a stop to stretch my legs 130km north of Madrid and in a clearing in some roadside pines I added Mistle Thrush (Zorzal Charlo / Turdus viscivorus), Iberian  Magpie (Rabilargo / Cyanopica cooki), Common Stonechat (Tarabilla Común / Saxicola torquata) and Blue Tit (Herrerillo Común / Parus caeruleus).

Just before I arrived at Silos I passed through La Yecla gorge where I saw good numbers of Griffon Vultures circling.

The only species added at Santi's were the resident House Sparrow (Gorrión Común / Passer domesticus), we had some lunch and later a nice evening meal before I saw the large sculpture / Art work on the side of the house, stunning.