Huétor Fields, Granada Province, Spain.

A morning down near Huétor catching up with some guides from Birding the Strait's and evening walk around the fields.

Ebird List for the Morning.

Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax).

I headed off down to Huétor at just before 08:00 and checked out the fields for the mobile flock of 16 Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax) after getting a message from Oli Reville to say that he was heading my way with Nacho Barrionuevo and their clients from Birding the Strait's.

I didn't find them on the top fields but was very pleased to find them sat on another strip of Lucerne down nearer to the Town where I watched them for a while before going to get some breakfast at the nearby petrol station.

I returned to the spot and was relieved to find the birds were still there, the groups ETA was around 09:30 so I stayed and nervously kept an eye on things until they arrived, thankfully they stayed.

European Pied Flycatcher (Papamoscas Cerrojillo / Ficedula hypoleuca).

Whilst I waited I added Eurasian Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto), European Turtle Dove (Tórtola Europea / Streptopelia turtur), Crested Lark (Cogujada Común / Galerida cristata), immature Montagu's Harrier (Aguilucho Cenizo / Circus pygargus), Western Jackdaw (Grajilla occidental / Corvus monedula), Corn Bunting (Escribano Triguero / Emberiza calandra), Spanish (Yellow) (Lavandera Boyera / Motacilla flava iberiae) and White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba), Little Owl (Mochuelo Europeo / Athene noctua), a distant Short-toed Snake Eagle (Culebrera Europeo / Circaetus gallicus) and a pale morph Booted (Aguila Calzada / Aquila penntuas) which came in very quickly over the factory rooftops hunting the Feral Pigeons (Paloma Bravía / Columba livia) but also flushed everything else including the Bustards but thankfully they circled once and came back in.

European Pied Flycatcher (Papamoscas Cerrojillo / Ficedula hypoleuca).

Oli, Nacho and all arrived and saw the birds well, for some of the group a comfort break was requirred so we headed up to the house getting Iberian  Magpie (Rabilargo Ibérico / Cyanopica cooki) on the way, we had more from the Terrace before they headed off up to Hacho hoping for a couple more species.

I got on with a few jobs including doing the bottom room before going out for an evening walk along the Lucerne fields, it was getting quite dark by the time I reached the Walnut trees so I was surprised to see the Black-winged Kite (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus), Eurasian Stone Curlew (Alcaraván Común / Burhinus oedicnemus) x3, Little Owl (Mochuelo Europeo / Athene noctua), European Pied Flycatcher (Papamoscas Cerrojillo / Ficedula hypoleuca)