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Tuesday, 4 February 2025

La Lancha, Sierra de Andújar Park Natural, Jaen, Spain.

A full day up at La Lancha.
Ebird List for La Lancha.
 
Our view for most of the day.

After breakfast we headed straight out to the La Lancha area, on the way we saw Angel's tears Narcissus (Narcissus coronatus), a group of 4 Wild Boar (Jabalí / Felis silvestris) running through the Oaks and several Roe Deer (Corzo / Capreolus capreolus).
Mouflon (Moflon / Ovis orientalis).
Once we were at the shelter we had a walk before settling in to scan the area again, today we saw Mouflon (Moflon / Ovis orientalis), Fallow (Gamo común / Dama dama) and Red Deer (Ciervo común / Cervus elaphus), 2 more Wild Boar, Rabbit (Conejo / Oryctolagus cuniculus), Western Dappled White (Euchloe crameri) x25+, Cleopatra (Gonepteryx cleopatra) x2, Clouded Yellow (Colias croceus) x4, Small Heath (Coenonympha pamphilus) x18+, Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas) x2, Large Tortoiseshell (Nymphalis polychloros) x1 and Andalucian Wall Lizard (Podarcis vaucheri).
Small Heath (Coenonympha pamphilus).
Western Dappled White (Euchloe crameri).
Western Dappled White (Euchloe crameri).
Western Dappled White (Euchloe crameri).
Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas).
Bird wise we recorded
Cinereous (Buitre Negro / Aegypius monachus) and Griffon Vulture (Bultre Leonado / Gyps fulvus), Iberian Imperial Eagle (Aguila Imperial Ibérica / Aguila adalberti), Little Owl (Mochuelo Europeo / Athene noctua), Iberian Green Woodpecker (Pito ibérico / Picus sharpei), Iberian Grey Shrike (Alcaudón Real / Lanius meridionalis), Iberian  Magpie (Rabilargo Ibérico / Cyanopica cooki), Red-billed Chough (Chova Piquirroja / Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax), European Crested Tit (Herrerillo Capuchino / Lophophanes cristatus), Woodlark (Alondra Totovía / Lullula arborea), Eurasian Crag Martin (Avión Roquero / Ptyonoprogne rupestris), Dartford Warbler (Curruca Rabilarga / Curruca undata), Song Thrush (Zorzal Común / Turdus philomelos) and Rock Bunting (Escribano Montesino / Emberiza cia) but unfortunately there were no Iberian Lynx (lince iberico / Lynx pardina) sightings.
Iberian Imperial Eagle (Aguila Imperial Ibérica / Aguila adalberti).
We left the area just before 18:00 and headed back to La Caracola where we again had a nice meal before hitting the pit.

 

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