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Thursday, 23 January 2025

Sad Hill, Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos, Spain.

A bit of birding in a special place.
Ebird List for Sad Hill.
 
Sad Hill in the Fog.
After breakfast I had a drive to the nearby Sad Hill Cemetery where the final gun fight in the movie the Good, the bad and the Ugly was shot, a place that I visited a few times with Jayne and several times on my own which has always felt special but more so these days.
I parked and did a loop around the site birding and checked in on Jayne's marker, as I walked I picked up Great Spotted (Pico Picapinos / Dendrocopos major) and Iberian Green Woodpecker (Pito ibérico / Picus sharpei), Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Eurasian Jay (Arrendajo Euroasiático / Garrulus glandarius), Iberian  Magpie (Rabilargo Ibérico / Cyanopica cooki), Eurasian Blue (Herrerillo Común / Cyanistes caeruleus), Great (Carbonera Común / Parus major) and European Crested Tit (Herrerillo Capuchino / Lophophanes cristatus), Woodlark (Alondra Totovía / Lullula arborea), Eurasian Wren (Chochin paleártico / Troglodytes troglodytes), European Goldfinch (Jilguero Europeo / Carduelis carduelis), European Greenfinch (Verderón Común / Chloris chloris), Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs), Cirl (Escribano Soteño / Emberiza cirlus) and Rock Bunting (Escribano Montesino / Emberiza cia), Common Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula), Mistle Thrush (Zorzal Charlo / Turdus viscivorus) and minimum of 28 Fieldfare (Zorzal Real / Turdus pilaris).
Fieldfare (Zorzal Real / Turdus pilaris).

Fieldfares (Zorzal Real / Turdus pilaris).
I returned to Santi's where we had a super lunch of home made Paella de Marisco and the chilled again.

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