Huétor Fields, Granada Province, Spain.*

A walk around the Patch.

Ebird List, 34 Species.

The Moon as I arrived.

As there is still no sign of or news on my car being bought back south from Cuenca I borrowed Friend Chis and Wayne's motor for a visit to the fields on my way to do some shopping in Huétor.

Just before Dawn.

I parked and walked the track around the Lucerne fields and out to the far side of the Poplar plantation and then back to the crossroads where I turned towards Huétor before returning to the car along the Arroyo.

Black-winged Kite (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus) hunting before the sun came up.

Interesting bird species included a Black-winged Kite (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus) which was out hunting before the sun was up, Little Owl (Mochuelo Europeo / Athene noctua), Western Cattle Egret (Garcilla Bueyera / Bubulcus ibis), European Bee-eater (Abejaruco Europeo / Merops apiaster), Iberian  Magpie (Rabilargo Ibérico / Cyanopica cooki), Common Waxbill (Estrilda Ondulada / Estrilda astrild), Common Reed Warbler (Carricero Común / Acrocephalus scrpaceus), Spanish (Yellow) Wagtail (Lavandera Boyera / Motacilla flava iberiae), Corn Bunting (Escribano Triguero / Emberiza calandra) and Cetti's Warbler (Cetia Ruiseñor / Cettia cetti).

♂ Copper Demoiselle (Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis).

On the return part of the walk I added European Turtle Dove (Tórtola Europea / Streptopelia turtur), Woodchat Shrike (Alcaudón Común / Lanius senator), Common Whitethroat (Curruca Zarcera / Sylvia communis), Melodious Warbler (Zarcero políglota / Hippolais polyglotta), Zitting Cisticola (Cistícola Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis) and a flock of Great Cormorants (Cormorán Grande / Phalacrocroax carbo).

Teneral ♂ Southern Skimmer (Orthetrum brunneum).

Other species included Perez's Frog (Rana Común / Pelophylax perezi), a ♂ Copper Demoiselle (Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis), both ♂♀ Red-veined Darters (Sympetrum fonscolombii) and and a teneral ♂ Southern Skimmer (Orthetrum brunneum).

Epaulet Skimmers (Orthetrum chrysostigma) ♂.

I went down to the town and then back home, once I took the car back up to Chris's I did a bit more decorating in the bottom room getting it ready for friends to arrive in a couple of weeks, whilst I walked up and down I noticed a couple of Epaulet Skimmers (Orthetrum chrysostigma) chasing each other around the garden pool so I got the camera and took a few shots.

Epaulet Skimmers (Orthetrum chrysostigma) ♂.