Huétor Fields and Granada City, Granada Province, Spain.*

A bit of Birding before I dropped the Hire Car off.

Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax).

Steve and I were heading down to see the mechanic and the out to Padul where we were meeting Steve's wife Elena so they could head home.

Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax).

On the way we made a quick visit to the fields where we were surprised to find a flock of 11 newly arrived Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax) as well as Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica), Western House Martin (Avión Común Occidental / Delichon urbicum), Spanish (Yellow) (Lavandera Boyera / Motacilla flava iberiae) and Grey Wagtail (Lavandera Cascadena / Motacilla cinerea), Crested Lark (Cogujada / Galerida cristata), Corn Bunting (Triguero / Emberiza calandra), European Bee-eater (Abejaruco Común / Merops apiaster), Eurasian Magpie (Urraca Común / Pica pica), Common Swift (Vencejo Común / Apus apus), European Goldfinch (Jilguero Europeo / Carduelis carduelis), European Serin (Serin Verdecillo / Serinus serinus), Great Tit (Carbonera Común / Parus major) and Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Curruca melanocephala).

Little Bustard (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax).

We popped to the Mechanic's and then made our way up to Granada and then down to Padul, on the way we saw a decent sized flock of Western Cattle Egret (Garcilla Bueyera / Bubulcus ibis) before we reached the meeting point where we had a coffee before Elena and Steve headed off and I went into the city and returned the car.

I then walked to the bus station from the train station and got a bus back to La Fabrica and walked home. 

Thanks to Steve for sending me some photo's over of the Little Bustards, happy to see some returning birds but very surprised how early they have arrived.