A quick walk around the Lucerne Fields.
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Sierra de Loja's gone missing in the Calima.
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After getting a delivery I popped down to the fields and had a short walk as it was muggy and the air was thick with the returning Sahara Dust / Calima, I tried to get up to my usual parking spot but thought that the pool across the track looked to deep so I went the other way at the ford and parked by the Walnut trees.
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Parapanda has also gone.
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I walked up to the parking spot but had to jump off the track when one of the tractors came along the top track as they, even in a big John Deer were not taking the chance to go through the pool so glade I didn't try.
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Nearly tried it but would definitely have regretted it.
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I continued on up stream and the turned around and went back to the car and then on as far as the crossroads, interesting species were
Common Quail (Codorniz Común / Coturnix coturnix) x2, 2
Great Spotted Cuckoos (Crialo Europeo / Clamator gladarius) which were being chased off by a couple of
Common Magpies (Urraca / Pica pica),
Common Swift (Vencejo Común / Apus apus), Green Sandpiper (Andarrios Grande / Tringa ochropus),
Black-winged Kite (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus), Montagu's Harrier (Aguilucho Cenizo / Circus pygargus), European Bee-eater (Abejaruco Común / Merops apiaster),
Iberian Magpie (Rabilargo / Cyanopica cooki),
Zitting Cisticola (Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis), Sedge Warbler (Carricerin Común / Acrocephalus schoenobaenus), Red-rumped Swallow (Golondrina Dáurica / Hirundo daurica),
Nightingale (Ruisenor Común / Luscinia megarhynchos) and Spanish (Yellow) Wagtail (Lavandera Boyera / Motacilla flava iberiae).
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Common Quail (Codorniz Común / Coturnix coturnix). |
Even through there was little sun due to the dust it was very warm and there were a few butterflies on the wing including Bath (Pontia daplidice) x2,
Green-Striped (Euchloe belemia) x1,
Small White (
Pieris rapae) x28+,
Geranium Bronze (
Cacyreus marshalli) x1, Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas) x1 and
Clouded Yellow (Colias corceua) x5.
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Great Spotted Cuckoo's (Crialo Europeo / Clamator gladarius). |
As I was walking both ways there were good numbers of the common
Perez's Frog (Rana Común / Pelophylax perezi) making lots of noisy from the reeds.
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