Travelling back home.
Ebird List for KM 107 South of Madrid, 10 Species.
Ebird List for Laguna de la Veguilla, 22 Species.
Ebird List for Camino Guerra, 13 Species.
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Great Bustards (Avutarda Común / Otis tarda). |
After breakfast I said goodbye to Santi, much happier seeing he was feeling much better and headed off south, as I passed La Yecla the resident
Griffon Vultures (Bultre Leonado / Gyps fulvus) were already up and about.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCCzeR3tCU7YHgTILwG_rrzSHRudASD1F2xjhN3J8L5TXsEBuxgo-OOyOkr_EElEc9KyZqz1n-o1ThstEvDg1Nyx4B7oVHkQBLAvFs07gfD0yp5TOjl0gWbekdadoz8CZrSasNW0DqNKtoy84zXT4p1Ktb64hRPyjxyByzQHnUxpbtyxijiBsAMNUe4Yo/w640-h314/8th-Jan-24-1.jpg) |
Great Bustards (Avutarda Común / Otis tarda). |
The drive down to and through Madrid was uneventful, on the way I picked up Carrion Crow (Corneja Negra / Corvus corone), Jackdaw (Grajilla / Corvus monedula),
Common Magpie (Urraca / Pica pica),
Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor),
House Sparrow (Gorrión Común / Passer domesticus),
Feral Pigeon (Paloma Bravía / Columba livia),
Iberian Grey Shrike (Alcaudón Real Meridional / Lanius meridionalis),
Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus),
Red Kite (Milano Real / Milvus milvus),
Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo) and Roe Deer (Corzo / Capreolus capreolus).
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Laguna de la Veguilla.
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Just over a 100km south of Madrid I pulled off and had a coffee, tostada con tomate y aceite and then went for a drive across the nearby fields and after a couple of KMs I came across the species I had hoped for when I saw 32
Great Bustards (Avutarda Común / Otis tarda).
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Common Cranes (Grulla Común / Grus grus). |
In the same area I also saw
Hoopoe (Abubilla / Upupa epops), Calandra (Calandria / Melanocorypha calandra) and
Skylark (Alondra Común / Alauda arvensis) and Corn Bunting (Triguero / Emberiza calandra).
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Common Cranes (Grulla Común / Grus grus). |
I continued on South and then off to the East to Laguna de la Veguilla where I checked out three of the hides, I spent most of the time at the first and picked up a good list of species including
Northern Shoveler (Pato Cuchara / Anas clypeata), Mallard (Anade Azulón / Anas platyrhynchos),
Gadwall (Anade Friso / Anas strepera),
Eurasian Teal (Cerceta Común / Anas crecca),
Common Pochard (Porrón Común / Aythya ferina),
White-headed Duck (Malvasia Cabeciblanca / Oxyura leucocephala),
Greater Flamingo (Flamenco Común / Phoenicopterus roseus), Little Grebe (Zampullín Común /
Tachybaptus ruficollis), Black-necked Grebe (Zampullín Cullinegro / Podiceps nigricollis),
Eurasian Coot (Focha Común / Fulica atra),
Western Swamp-hen (Calamon Común / Porphyrio porphyrio),
Common Crane (Grulla Común / Grus grus),
White Stork (Ciguena Blanca / Ciconia ciconia),
Marsh Harrier (Aguilucho Lagunero Occidental / Circus aeruginosus),
Little Egret (Garceta Común / Egreeta garzetta), Common Chiffchaff (Mosquitero Común / Phylloscopus collybita), Song Thrush (Zorzal Común / Turdus philomelos),
Cetti's Warbler (Ruisenor Bastardo / Cettia cetti),
Goldfinch (Jilguero / Carduelis carduelis) and
Common Stonechat (Tarabilla Común / Saxicola torquata).
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Pin-tailed Sandgrouse (Ganga Ibérica / Pterocles alchata). |
I walked to the next hide but there wasn't a single bird in the view so I returned to the car and drove around to the hide near to the visitor's Center where as soon as I walked in to it I could hear Bearded Tits (Reedling) (Bigotudo / Panurus biarmicus) calling off to the left in the reeds but it took another 20 minutes to get a view of them as 4 birds crossed the bay.
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Pin-tailed Sandgrouse (Ganga Ibérica / Pterocles alchata). |
I returned to the car and drove out to a spot in the middle of nowhere to the south of the town and after driving around the fields for a while I found 9
Pin-tailed Sandgrouse (Ganga Ibérica /
Pterocles alchata), a Golden Plover (Chorlito Dorado Europeo / Pluvialis apricaia), 14x
Northern Lapwings (Avefria Europea / Vanellus vanellus), Lesser Black-backed Gull (Gaviota Sombria / Larus fuscus) all of which were new for the day and at least 300
Common Cranes but there were probably around double that number really.
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Pin-tailed Sandgrouse (Ganga Ibérica / Pterocles alchata). |
I continued on South and got home just before 19:00 and after getting everything switched and the fire going I sat down and had a nice bowl of lentejas before hitting the pit.
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