A run along the Malaga coast and then back through Granada.
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Lesser Black-backed (Gaviota Sombria / Larus fuscus) showing characteristics of Baltic Gull (Larus fuscus fuscus). |
We headed off towards the coast, taking the road south across country via Salar, Ventas de Zafarraya, Puente de Salia and Vélez-Málaga.
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Lesser Black-backed (Gaviota Sombria / Larus fuscus) showing characteristics of Baltic Gull (Larus fuscus fuscus). |
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Lesser Black-backed (Gaviota Sombria / Larus fuscus) showing characteristics of Baltic Gull (Larus fuscus fuscus). |
As we drove I saw Western Cattle Egret (Garcilla Bueyera / Bubulcus ibis), Common Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus), Eurasian Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto), Iberian (Rabilargo Ibérico / Cyanopica cooki) and Eurasian Magpie (Urraca Común / Pica pica), White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba), Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor), Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Curruca melanocephala), European Goldfinch (Jilguero Europeo / Carduelis carduelis), Eurasian Hoopoe (Abubilla Común / Upupa epops),
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Lesser Black-backed (Gaviota Sombria / Larus fuscus) showing characteristics of Baltic Gull (Larus fuscus fuscus). |
We reached Caleta de Velez and after getting a coffee we went for a walk along the fenced of beach where the gulls roost and I found good numbers of birds but just a single
Black-headed Gull (Gaviota Reidora / Chroicocephalus ridibundus) and a dozen or so
Yellow-legged (Gaviota Patiamarilla / Larus Michahellis) amongst around 300 Lesser Black-backed (Gaviota Sombria / Larus fuscus) with some of these birds
showing characteristics of Baltic Gull (Larus fuscus fuscus) really stood out as much darker birds.
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Paler looking Lesser Black-backed Gulls (Gaviota Sombria / Larus fuscus). |
In the same area I also saw
Monk Parakeet (Cotorra Argentina / Myiopsitta monachus), Little Egret (Garceta Común / Egretta garzetta), Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica) and
European Greenfinch (Verderón Común / Chloris chloris).
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Yellow-legged Gull (Gaviota Patiamarilla / Larus Michahellis). |
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Yellow-legged Gull (Gaviota Patiamarilla / Larus Michahellis). |
We moved on and took the coast road east to Nerja where we had a drive around trying to find somewhere to park as the main car park was closed so we ended up down by the hotel Monica and had some lunch in one of the bars there but as we ate the rain arrived so we decided not continue on into town but to head back to the house along the coast and then up around Granada and home.
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Eurasian Blackcap (Curruca Capirotada / Curruca capirotada) male.
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Later we sat up on the terrace for a while seeing
Eurasian Blackcap (Curruca Capirotada / Curruca capirotada),
Spotted Flycatcher (Papamoscas Gris / Muscicapa striata),
Great Tit (Carbonera Común / Parus major), European Serin (Serin Verdecillo / Serinus serinus) and
Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Gavilán Común / Accipiter nisus).
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