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Tuesday, 22 October 2024

Huétor Fields and Riofrio, Granada Province, Spain.

Down on the patch with Beth before going for a Coffee and a Chat with a friend.
Ebird List for the Fields.
 
The sunrises over Sierra Nevada.
Corn Bunting (Escribano Triguero / Emberiza calandra).
I started the day by getting a few jobs done and the headed down to the fields where I met Beth for a walk along the Lucerne fields where we saw Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Little Owl (Mochuelo Europeo / Athene noctua), Eurasian Hoopoe (Abubilla Común / Upupa epops), Iberian  Magpie (Rabilargo Ibérico / Cyanopica cooki), Western Jackdaw (Grajilla occidental / Corvus monedula), the first Eurasian Skylarks (Alondra Común / Alauda arvensis) of the autumn, a late Common Reed Warbler (Carricero Común / Acrocephalus scrpaceus), Common Chiffchaff (Mosquitero Común / Phylloscopus collybita), Song Thrush (Zorzal Común / Turdus philomelos), Black Redstart (Colirrojo Tizón / Phoenicurus ochruros), Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Gorrión Molinero / Passer montanus), White (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba) and Grey Wagtail (Lavandera Cascadena / Motacilla cinerea), Meadow Pipit (Bisbita Pratense / Anthus pratensis) and Corn Bunting (Escribano Triguero / Emberiza calandra).
Common Chiffchaff (Mosquitero Común / Phylloscopus collybita).
Common Chiffchaff (Mosquitero Común / Phylloscopus collybita).
As we walked we also saw Clouded Yellow (Colias croceus) x5, Lang's Short-tailed Blue (Leptotes pirithous) x1 and Small White (Pieris rapae) 18 before Beth headed off to meet her sister's and I went to Riofrio where I met up with friend Pat and we had Coffee, Tostrada and a chat before I went and had lunch with Beth in Loja. 
Later I went back home via the garage where I washed and cleaned the car.
European Stonechat (Tarabilla Europea / Saxicola rubicola) female.
European Stonechat (Tarabilla Europea / Saxicola rubicola) female.

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