Sad Hill, Santo Domingo de Silos in Burgos Province, Spain.

Back up to the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Cemetery looking for Thrushes.

Ebird List, 15 Species.

 

Back for the birds and a chat.

After a morning with Santi at the house I popped up to the Sad Hill site during siesta time hoping to find the flock of Fieldfare (Zorzal Real / Turdus pilaris) I had seen at the end of 2023 when it numbered 55 at least but today I was only to find a group of 5 birds, guessing this was due to the change in the weather and the drop in temperature.

Traffic coming up the Hill.

Peña Carazo with a bit of Snow.

I did a loop around the area trying to dodge the wetter areas and added Crested (Herrerillo Capuchino / Parus cristatus), Blue (Herrerillo Común / Parus caeruleus) and Great Tit (Carbonera Común / Parus major), Mistle (Zorzal Charlo / Turdus viscivorus) and Song Thrush (Zorzal Común / Turdus philomelos), Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula), Black Redstart (Colirrojo Tizón / Phoenicurus ochruros), Iberian  Magpie (Rabilargo / Cyanopica cooki), Iberian Green Woodpecker (Pito Real / Picus sharpei), Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs), Goldfinch (Jilguero / Carduelis carduelis), Greenfinch (Verderón Común / Carduelis chloris) and Citril Finch (Verderón Serrano / Serinus citrinella) as well as several Griffon Vultures (Bultre Leonado / Gyps fulvus) and Rabbits (Conejo / Oryctolagus cuniculus).

One of the lighter snow showers.

The sun peeping through between the snow.

Several heavy snow showers passed along the valley and the temp dropped off quickly so I returned to the central heating of Santi's house.