My last day with Chamila and Manuel.
Ebird List for
La Lancha.
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Red-legged Partridge (Perdiz Roja / Alectoris rufa).
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We again had a coffee before heading out to the La Lancha area again, on the way in we saw several Red-legged Partridges (Perdiz Roja / Alectoris rufa),
Iberian Green Woodpecker (Pito Real / Picus sharpei),
Mistle Thrush (Zorzal Charlo / Turdus viscivorus), Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto),
Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs), Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus),
Red Deer (Ciervo común / Cervus elaphus) and
Rabbit (Conejo / Oryctolagus cuniculus). |
Little Owl (Mochuelo Europeo / Athene noctua). |
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Little Owl (Mochuelo Europeo / Athene noctua). |
We arrived on site and set ourselves up at the shelter and as we had done for the last three days we scanned the crags and slopes and over the next few hours we saw Little Owl (Mochuelo Europeo / Athene noctua),
Common Cuckoo (Cuco Común / Cuculus canorus), a Western Osprey (Águila Pescardora / Pandion haliaetus) which passed through quickly heading North,
Griffon (Bultre Leonado / Gyps fulvus) and Cinereous / European Black Vulture (Buitre Negro / Aegypius monachus),
Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Booted (Aguila Calzada / Aquila pennatus) and Iberian Imperial Eagle (Aguila Imperial Ibérica / Aguila adalberti),
Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Jay (Arrendajo / Garrulus glandarius),
Common Magpie (Urraca / Pica pica),
Red-billed Chough (Chova Piquirroja / Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax),
Song Thrush (Zorzal Común / Turdus philomelos),
Crested (Herrerillo Capuchino / Lophophanes cristatus),
Blue (Herrerillo Común / Cyanistes caeruleus) and Great Tit (Carbonera Común / Parus major), Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor),
Woodlark (Totovia / Lullula arborea),
Corn Bunting (Triguero / Emberiza calandra),
Common Chiffchaff (Mosquitero Común / Phylloscopus collybita), Blackcap (Curruca Capirotada / Sylvia atricapilla),
Sardinian (Curruca Cabecinegra / Sylvia melanocephala) and
Dartford Warbler (Curruca Rabilarga / Sylvia undata) and
Rock Bunting (Escribano Montesino / Emberiza cia).
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Ocellated Lizard (Timon lepidus). |
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French Lavender (Lavandula stoechas). |
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Rusty-back Fern (Ceterach officinarum). |
Whilst we were there we also saw had
Ocellated Lizard (Timon lepidus), distant
Mouflon (Moflon / Ovis orientalis) and
Spanish Ibex (Cabra montés / Capra pyrenaica hispanica),
Western Dappled (Euchloe crameri) and
Small White (
Pieris rapae),
Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas),
Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta),
Clouded Yellow (Colias croceus),
Rusty-back Fern (Ceterach officinarum)
and
French Lavender (Lavandula stoechas).
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Dartford Warbler (Curruca Rabilarga / Sylvia undata).
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In the afternoon we drove down to the far shelter and scanned from there for a while before driving back as far as the old Bull Ring and the we drove out to the Mirador de Los Alarcones but apart from a few
Thekla Larks (Cogujada Montesina / Galerida theklae) it really wasn't worth the 14km drive.
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Mouflon (Moflon / Ovis orientalis). |
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Mouflon (Moflon / Ovis orientalis). |
We turned around and headed back to the apartments, on the way we saw a pair of
Mouflon which gave us some good views, the best I have had of the species.
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Mouflon (Moflon / Ovis orientalis). |
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Mouflon (Moflon / Ovis orientalis). |
In the same area we also saw
Great Spotted Woodpecker (Pico Picapinos / Dendrocopos major),
Star of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum baeticum), Spanish Bluebell (Scilla hispanica), Tassel Hyacinth (Leopoldia comosa), White Mignonette (Reseda Alba) and Navelwort (Umbilicus rupestris) before we returned to the digs, said our goodbyes and I headed for La Caracola where I met up with another couple of Butterfly / Lynx hunters. |
Mouflon (Moflon / Ovis orientalis). |
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Star of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum baeticum). |
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