Huétor Fields and Arroyo Vilano, Granada Province, Spain.

Heading home and some local patch bits and pieces.

Ebird List for the fields.

Cloudy and drizzle morning down on the fields.

I decided to head home early and not bother going to check on the Migration at the Observatorio Aves Algarrobo, the drive back was good and I was soon on the fields back at home where I parked at my usual spot and did a walk out as far as the Poplar Plantation and back again under heavy cloud and at times some light drizzle.

A Common Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus) or two on the wires.

Interesting species included Black-winged Kite (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus), Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Gavilán Común / Accipiter nisus), Little Owl (Mochuelo Europeo / Athene noctua), Great Spotted Woodpecker (Pico Picapinos / Dendrocopos major), Iberian  Magpie (Rabilargo Ibérico / Cyanopica cooki), Western Jackdaw (Grajilla occidental / Corvus monedula), Dartford (Curruca Rabilarga / Curruca undata), Willow (Mosquitero Musical / Phylloscopus trochillus) and Common Reed Warbler (Carricero Común / Acrocephalus scrpaceus), Barn (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica) and Red-rumped Swallow (Golondrina Dáurica / Cecropis daurica), Sand (Avión Zapador / Riparia riparia) and Western House Martin (Avión Común Occidental / Delichon urbicum), European Pied (Papamoscas Cerrojillo / Ficedula hypoleuca) and Spotted Flycatcher (Papamoscas Gris / Muscicapa striata), Whinchat (Tarabilla Norteña / Saxicola rubetra), Common Waxbill (Estrilda Ondulada / Estrilda astrild), Spanish (Yellow) (Lavandera Boyera / Motacilla flava iberiae) and White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba), Corn Bunting (Escribano Triguero / Emberiza calandra) and the best a passage Tree Pipit (Bisbita Arbóreo / Anthus trivialis).

Tree Pipit (Bisbita Arbóreo / Anthus trivialis).

I went home and sorted out and later met Lynn and Steve down by the Arroyo Vilano above La Fabrica where Steve and I went for a walk along the part of the Arroyo which still had a bit of water flowing even thought there was a big pump extracting large amounts for the fields, as we walked we saw Blue / Common Emperor (Anax imperator), Scarlet (Crocothemis erythraea), Red-veined (Sympetrum fonscolombii) and Desert Darter (Sympetrum sinaiticum), Epaulet (Orthetrum chrysostigma) and Southern Skimmer (Orthetrum brunneum), Orange-winged Dropwing (Trithemis kirbyi), Copper Demoiselle (Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis), Iberian Bluetail (Ischnura graellsii), Swallowtail (Papilio machaon), African Grass Blue (Zizeeria knysna), Desert Orange-tip (Colotis evagore), Bath (Pontia daplidice), Large (Pieris brassicae) and Small White (Pieris rapae), Clouded Yellow (Colias croceus), Meadow (Maniola jurtina) and Wall Brown (Lasiommata megera), Mediterranean (Gegenes nostrodamus) and Sage Skipper (Muschampia proto).

There weren't many birds about but we did pick up Grey (Lavandera Cascadena / Motacilla cinerea) and Spanish (Yellow) Wagtail, Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor), Cetti's (Cetia Ruiseñor / Cettia cetti) and Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Curruca melanocephala), Green Sandpiper (Andarrios Grande / Tringa ochropus), Great Tit (Carbonera Común / Parus major) and European Goldfinch (Jilguero Europeo / Carduelis carduelis) before we all headed off.