Day one with friends Sonia and Ricky.
Ebird List for
Puerto de la Ragua. Ebird List for the tracks.
Ebird List for Huétor Fields.
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Citril Finch (Verderón Serrano / Serinus citrinella) male.
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Sonja and Ricky arrived yesterday and after a good nights sleep we headed out East to our first stop at Puerto de la Ragua, on the way we saw Hoopoe (Abubilla / Upupa epops), Turtle Dove (Tórtola Europea / Streptopelia turtur),
House Sparrow (Gorrión Común / Passer domesticus),
Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor),
Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus),
Iberian (Rabilargo / Cyanopica cooki) and
Common Magpie (Urraca / Pica pica) and
Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto).
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Citril Finch (Verderón Serrano / Serinus citrinella) male and female. |
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Citril Finch (Verderón Serrano / Serinus citrinella) female. |
Before we had even parked at Ragua we picked up a group of Citril Finches (Verderón Serrano / Serinus citrinella) feeding just below the road, by the time we had parked a motorbike had gone passed and had flushed them up to a group of Rose Bushes.
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Lammergeier / Bearded Vulture (Quebrantahuesos / Gypaetus barbatus) one of two birds seen distantly.
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Coal Tit (Carbonero Garrapinos / Parus ater) one of lots seen. |
We crossed the road onto the Granada Province side of the area where we followed the Barranco Maja Caco finding
Coal (Carbonero Garrapinos / Parus ater),
Long-tailed (Mito / Aegithalos caudatus),
Crested (Herrerillo Capuchino / Parus cristatus),
Blue (Herrerillo Común / Parus caeruleus) and Great Tit (Carbonera Común / Parus major), Short-toed Treecreeper (Agateador Común / Certhia brachydactyla),
Western Subalpine Warbler (Curruca Carrasquena / Sylvia cantillans),
Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs), Serin (Verdecillo / Serinus serinus),
Wren (Chochin / Troglodytes troglodytes),
Common Stonechat (Tarabilla Común / Saxicola torquata),
Woodlark (Totovia / Lullula arborea),
Robin (Petirrojo Europeo / Erithacus rubecula),
Mistle Thrush (Zorzal Charlo / Turdus viscivorus), Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula),
Rock Bunting (Escribano Montesino / Emberiza cia) and then off in the distance I picked up two large raptors which turned out to be adult looking
Lammergeier / Bearded Vulture (Quebrantahuesos / Gypaetus barbatus).
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Alyssum granatense ????
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After checking the area at the top of the Barranco seeing a single male
Spanish Ibex (Cabra montés / Capra pyrenaica hispanica), some plant species and on the way down we added
Tawny Pipit (Bisbita Camprstre / Anthus campestris),
Woodlark (Totovia / Lullula arborea),
Spanish Festoon (Zerynthia rumina) x2 and
Clouded Yellow (Colias corceua) x3.
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Puerto de la Ragua. |
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Puerto de la Ragua. |
We returned to the car and the had a walk through the Pine Woodland near the Picnic tables finding
Firecrest (Reyezuelo Listado / Regulus ignicapillus),
White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba) and
Nuthatch (Trepador Azul / Sitta europaea). ![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwykAh0LMscxnyFlmVDkcKIWK1mabSKeK7m8t0WscEPBy-tQCNkNZ1PeLhzryUlOjBeqL6QVCyREpZk2QISsYlBhDfsOSBXLEHAje-E3qO5lG-pii7kpoM6nYJaIWdyKrhHX9xEFsZuLVIXLEoJwFQeVlRIx7d5fC0nRzXoaF7ZELtPf93GC_i86WY2Xs/w640-h422/28th-April-24-9.jpg) |
Stock Dove (Paloma Zurita / Columba oenas). |
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Stock Dove (Paloma Zurita / Columba oenas). |
We dropped back down the hill and then back towards Guadix, on the way we saw
Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Carrion Crow (Corneja Negra / Corvus corone) and Booted Eagle (Aguililla Calzada / Hieraaetus pennatus) before we reached our next stop at an irrigation pool where we saw a couple of Stock Doves (Paloma Zurita / Columba oenas), along with
Red-billed Chough (Chova Piquirroja / Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax),
Carrion Crows,
Jackdaw (Grajilla / Corvus monedula),
Red-legged Partridge (Perdiz Roja / Alectoris rufa),
Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Common Sandpiper (Andarrios Chico / Actitis hypoleucos),
Linnet (Pardillo Común / Carduelis cannabina), Greenfinch (Verderón Común / Carduelis chloris),
Perez's Frog (Rana Común / Pelophylax perezi) and a couple of
Bath Whites (Pontia daplidice) x2.
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Roller (Carraca / Coracias garrulus). |
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European Bee-eater (Abejaruco Común / Merops apiaster). |
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European Bee-eater (Abejaruco Común / Merops apiaster). |
Next we spent a couple of hours driving the tracks in the area finding Roller (Carraca / Coracias garrulus),
Thekla (Cogujada Montesina / Galerida theklae) and
Greater Short-toed Lark (Terrera Común / Calandrella brachydactyla),
Woodchat Shrike (Alcaudón Común / Lanius senator),
Rock Sparrow (Gorrión Chillón / Petronia petronia),
Black Wheatear (Collalba Negra / Oenanthe leucura), Golden Oriole (Oropéndola / Oriolus oriolus),
Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica),
Iberian Green Woodpecker (Pito Real / Picus sharpei),
Common Swift (Vencejo Común / Apus apus), more Hoopoes, Adonis annua,
Corn (Papaver rhoeas) and Red-horned Poppy (
Glaucium corniculatum), Corn Gromwell (Buglossoides arvensis), Roemeria sicula and Roemeria hybrida,
Hypecoum imberbe,
Blue Hound's Tongue (Cynoglossum creticum) and Vicia peregrina.
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Some weather over Sierra Nevada where we had just come from.
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Adonis annua. |
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Corn Gromwell (Buglossoides arvensis). |
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Vicia peregrina.
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We moved on again and made our way to Los Mimbres and then had a walk looking for some new Orchids and we were pleased to find several spikes of
Barton's Orchid (Dactylorhiza insularis), Yellow Bee Orchid (Ophrys lutea),
Dense-flowered Orchid (Neotinea maculata) and best of all were 5 or so spikes of the uncommon Orchis cazorlensis.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkjDLpunbKWPDYtuBYIPJ55t9BvxzNIeZ7J_4Hu8eem0OSaYVgN-M1mKXrrhBgMeaV9XKomMPDF3kpzrbpHQ-Qx12tjarGL2FSX92woRAYqwa6BdzyaBiL7VcZLRBUTGUc48ItJJZrQ54Avd0oIvDy03W_QiljEUHdqzAeFfuZYVtHgxdR9Tjg-uSeMUI/s16000/28th-April-24-17.jpg) |
Barton's Orchid (Dactylorhiza insularis). |
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Barton's Orchid (Dactylorhiza insularis). |
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Yellow Bee Orchid (Ophrys lutea). |
In the same area we also found
Adonis vernalis,
Tassel Hyacinth (Leopoldia comosa), Wild Gladiolus (Gladiolus italicus),
Southern Knapweed (Centaurea pullata),
Polygala boissieri, Bonelli's Warbler (Mosquitero Papialbo / Phylloscopus bonelli), Jay (Arrendajo / Garrulus glandarius),
Firecrest (Reyezuelo Listado / Regulus ignicapillus) and
Blackcap (Curruca Capirotada / Sylvia atricailla).
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Dense-flowered Orchid (Neotinea maculata). |
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Dense-flowered Orchid (Neotinea maculata). |
We headed back towards the house but called in at the fields on the way back picking up
Little Bustard (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax), Montagu's Harrier (Aguilucho Cenizo / Circus pygargus), Black-winged Kite (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus), Nightingale (Ruisenor Común / Luscinia megarhynchos), Spanish (Yellow) Wagtail (Lavandera Boyera / Motacilla flava iberiae) and
Crested Lark (Cogujada / Galerida cristata), all of which were new for the day.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii3poIR5uZWSZch-r_nz7S9fxm6FqZSU3LuoDVowKdvWMELscA9fSrw1K4nNy2LZ04zZUPtC60qS2wI6pMrSXIbj_rqwwa46GXkgrIfMRJ-LZWri4xsX3gsyGwFXI_zu52F0IseM1YWukLPTY80dkhoHn93ypoaG48IuJXd6aZuCaY_Hdh-Kb47tMMYJQ/w638-h640/28th-April-24-20.jpg) |
Orchis cazorlensis. |
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Orchis cazorlensis. |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn06c12F0nrcnrpTt8008eoERPPwXZ9PFKXuH_a7_0UGkEo-CgjK0snEa5RpAkROYPHbvFSCbgfTjsB-a7n9ywQZWRQeiIfHZjIMAygiAllcL0PB_oA2-pNEmvC6yIaSZVxrV_USYKAeFpHpR3N9VlWFMYJnKd7hU4gIzfc3DecPsYV4NxjkCFvgjjLO4/w640-h552/28th-April-24-22.jpg) |
Orchis cazorlensis. |
Later we went down to Huétor for something to eat and a couple of drinks.
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